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Commit a8821f3f authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: Improvements to bounce-buffer handling

Since commit 23688bf4

 ("block: ensure to split after potentially
bouncing a bio") blk_queue_bounce() is called *before*
blk_queue_split().
This means that:
 1/ the comments blk_queue_split() about bounce buffers are
    irrelevant, and
 2/ a very large bio (more than BIO_MAX_PAGES) will no longer be
    split before it arrives at blk_queue_bounce(), leading to the
    possibility that bio_clone_bioset() will fail and a NULL
    will be dereferenced.

Separately, blk_queue_bounce() shouldn't use fs_bio_set as the bio
being copied could be from the same set, and this could lead to a
deadlock.

So:
 - allocate 2 private biosets for blk_queue_bounce, one for
   splitting enormous bios and one for cloning bios.
 - add code to split a bio that exceeds BIO_MAX_PAGES.
 - Fix up the comments in blk_queue_split()

Credit-to: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> (suggested using single bio_for_each_segment loop)
Reviewed-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 93b27e72
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