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block: make sure a big bio is split into at most 256 bvecs
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After arbitrary bio size was introduced, the incoming bio may
be very big. We have to split the bio into small bios so that
each holds at most BIO_MAX_PAGES bvecs for safety reason, such
as bio_clone().

This patch fixes the following kernel crash:

> [  172.660142] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
> [  172.660229] IP: [<ffffffff811e53b4>] bio_trim+0xf/0x2a
> [  172.660289] PGD 7faf3e067 PUD 7f9279067 PMD 0
> [  172.660399] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [...]
> [  172.664780] Call Trace:
> [  172.664813]  [<ffffffffa007f3be>] ? raid1_make_request+0x2e8/0xad7 [raid1]
> [  172.664846]  [<ffffffff811f07da>] ? blk_queue_split+0x377/0x3d4
> [  172.664880]  [<ffffffffa005fb5f>] ? md_make_request+0xf6/0x1e9 [md_mod]
> [  172.664912]  [<ffffffff811eb860>] ? generic_make_request+0xb5/0x155
> [  172.664947]  [<ffffffffa0445c89>] ? prio_io+0x85/0x95 [bcache]
> [  172.664981]  [<ffffffffa0448252>] ? register_cache_set+0x355/0x8d0 [bcache]
> [  172.665016]  [<ffffffffa04497d3>] ? register_bcache+0x1006/0x1174 [bcache]

The issue can be reproduced by the following steps:
	- create one raid1 over two virtio-blk
	- build bcache device over the above raid1 and another cache device
	and bucket size is set as 2Mbytes
	- set cache mode as writeback
	- run random write over ext4 on the bcache device

Fixes: 54efd50(block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios)
Reported-by: Sebastian Roesner <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Eric Wheeler <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] (4.3+)
Cc: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
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Ming Lei authored and axboe committed Aug 24, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -94,8 +94,30 @@ static struct bio *blk_bio_segment_split(struct request_queue *q,
bool do_split = true;
struct bio *new = NULL;
const unsigned max_sectors = get_max_io_size(q, bio);
unsigned bvecs = 0;

bio_for_each_segment(bv, bio, iter) {
/*
* With arbitrary bio size, the incoming bio may be very
* big. We have to split the bio into small bios so that
* each holds at most BIO_MAX_PAGES bvecs because
* bio_clone() can fail to allocate big bvecs.
*
* It should have been better to apply the limit per
* request queue in which bio_clone() is involved,
* instead of globally. The biggest blocker is the
* bio_clone() in bio bounce.
*
* If bio is splitted by this reason, we should have
* allowed to continue bios merging, but don't do
* that now for making the change simple.
*
* TODO: deal with bio bounce's bio_clone() gracefully
* and convert the global limit into per-queue limit.
*/
if (bvecs++ >= BIO_MAX_PAGES)
goto split;

/*
* If the queue doesn't support SG gaps and adding this
* offset would create a gap, disallow it.
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