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author | Ming Lei <[email protected]> | 2016-08-23 21:49:45 +0800 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <[email protected]> | 2016-08-24 08:17:24 -0600 |
commit | 4d70dca4eadf2f95abe389116ac02b8439c2d16c (patch) | |
tree | aa98facd4f10d735316311a02e49e697374c02d0 /tools/perf/scripts/python/call-graph-from-postgresql.py | |
parent | 9b47f77a680447e0132b2cf7fb82374e014bec1c (diff) |
block: make sure a big bio is split into at most 256 bvecs
After arbitrary bio size was introduced, the incoming bio may
be very big. We have to split the bio into small bios so that
each holds at most BIO_MAX_PAGES bvecs for safety reason, such
as bio_clone().
This patch fixes the following kernel crash:
> [ 172.660142] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
> [ 172.660229] IP: [<ffffffff811e53b4>] bio_trim+0xf/0x2a
> [ 172.660289] PGD 7faf3e067 PUD 7f9279067 PMD 0
> [ 172.660399] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [...]
> [ 172.664780] Call Trace:
> [ 172.664813] [<ffffffffa007f3be>] ? raid1_make_request+0x2e8/0xad7 [raid1]
> [ 172.664846] [<ffffffff811f07da>] ? blk_queue_split+0x377/0x3d4
> [ 172.664880] [<ffffffffa005fb5f>] ? md_make_request+0xf6/0x1e9 [md_mod]
> [ 172.664912] [<ffffffff811eb860>] ? generic_make_request+0xb5/0x155
> [ 172.664947] [<ffffffffa0445c89>] ? prio_io+0x85/0x95 [bcache]
> [ 172.664981] [<ffffffffa0448252>] ? register_cache_set+0x355/0x8d0 [bcache]
> [ 172.665016] [<ffffffffa04497d3>] ? register_bcache+0x1006/0x1174 [bcache]
The issue can be reproduced by the following steps:
- create one raid1 over two virtio-blk
- build bcache device over the above raid1 and another cache device
and bucket size is set as 2Mbytes
- set cache mode as writeback
- run random write over ext4 on the bcache device
Fixes: 54efd50(block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios)
Reported-by: Sebastian Roesner <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Eric Wheeler <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] (4.3+)
Cc: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
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