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Commit 42d3e2d0 authored by Vivek Goyal's avatar Vivek Goyal Committed by Miklos Szeredi
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virtiofs: calculate number of scatter-gather elements accurately



virtiofs currently maps various buffers in scatter gather list and it looks
at number of pages (ap->pages) and assumes that same number of pages will
be used both for input and output (sg_count_fuse_req()), and calculates
total number of scatterlist elements accordingly.

But looks like this assumption is not valid in all the cases. For example,
Cai Qian reported that trinity, triggers warning with virtiofs sometimes.
A closer look revealed that if one calls ioctl(fd, 0x5a004000, buf), it
will trigger following warning.

WARN_ON(out_sgs + in_sgs != total_sgs)

In this case, total_sgs = 8, out_sgs=4, in_sgs=3. Number of pages is 2
(ap->pages), but out_sgs are using both the pages but in_sgs are using
only one page. In this case, fuse_do_ioctl() sets different size values
for input and output.

args->in_args[args->in_numargs - 1].size == 6656
args->out_args[args->out_numargs - 1].size == 4096

So current method of calculating how many scatter-gather list elements
will be used is not accurate. Make calculations more precise by parsing
size and ap->descs.

Reported-by: default avatarQian Cai <cai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/5ea77e9f6cb8c2db43b09fbd4158ab2d8c066a0a.camel@redhat.com/


Reviewed-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
parent 413daa1a
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