dm: fix casting bug in dm_merge_bvec()
dm_merge_bvec() was originally added in f6fccb ("dm: introduce merge_bvec_fn"). In that commit a value in sectors is converted to bytes using << 9, and then assigned to an int. This code made assumptions about the value of BIO_MAX_SECTORS. A later commit 148e51 ("dm: improve documentation and code clarity in dm_merge_bvec") was meant to have no functional change but it removed the use of BIO_MAX_SECTORS in favor of using queue_max_sectors(). At this point the cast from sector_t to int resulted in a zero value. The fallout being dm_merge_bvec() would only allow a single page to be added to a bio. This interim fix is minimal for the benefit of stable@ because the more comprehensive cleanup of passing a sector_t to all DM targets' merge function will impact quite a few DM targets. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.19+
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