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| author | Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de> | 2012-05-11 16:36:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2012-05-31 00:43:15 +0100 |
| commit | 6609c1cd5ca261eadaddaca83d71977a8dfb4032 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c3d0245aaedd443251ccf5973705e678ca49943 /block | |
| parent | c8616ea3986b2e65f77a5442ca056683d6df987d (diff) | |
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bio allocation failure due to bio_get_nr_vecs()
commit f908ee9463b09ddd05e1c1a0111132212dc05fac upstream.
The number of bio_get_nr_vecs() is passed down via bio_alloc() to
bvec_alloc_bs(), which fails the bio allocation if
nr_iovecs > BIO_MAX_PAGES. For the underlying caller this causes an
unexpected bio allocation failure.
Limiting to queue_max_segments() is not sufficient, as max_segments
also might be very large.
bvec_alloc_bs(gfp_mask, nr_iovecs, ) => NULL when nr_iovecs > BIO_MAX_PAGES
bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_mask, nr_iovecs, ...)
bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, nvecs)
xfs_alloc_ioend_bio()
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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