With the introduction of indirect segments we can receive requests
with a number of segments bigger than the maximum number of allowed
iovecs in a bios, so make sure that blkback doesn't try to allocate a
bios with more iovecs than BIO_MAX_PAGES
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>
---
drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
index d622d86..b3897f5d 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -1236,7 +1236,8 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
seg[i].nsec << 9,
seg[i].offset) == 0)) {
- bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nseg-i);
+ int nr_iovecs = min_t(int, (nseg-i), BIO_MAX_PAGES);
+ bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nr_iovecs);
if (unlikely(bio == NULL))
goto fail_put_bio;
--
1.7.7.5 (Apple Git-26)
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