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Commit 4e870e94 authored by Mikulas Patocka's avatar Mikulas Patocka Committed by Mike Snitzer
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dm crypt: fix error with too large bios



When dm-crypt processes writes, it allocates a new bio in
crypt_alloc_buffer().  The bio is allocated from a bio set and it can
have at most BIO_MAX_PAGES vector entries, however the incoming bio can be
larger (e.g. if it was allocated by bcache).  If the incoming bio is
larger, bio_alloc_bioset() fails and an error is returned.

To avoid the error, we test for a too large bio in the function
crypt_map() and use dm_accept_partial_bio() to split the bio.
dm_accept_partial_bio() trims the current bio to the desired size and
asks DM core to send another bio with the rest of the data.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+
parent 91e630d9
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