tree 28d91bb07d38f47d557833a2124a8e5f266bb5de
parent 9b4231bf995996d6459c57959ead5a1829ff2c57
author Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com> 1404233715 -0600
committer Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> 1404233715 -0600

bio: modify __bio_add_page() to accept pages that don't start a new segment

The original behaviour is to refuse to add a new page if the maximum
number of segments has been reached, regardless of the fact the page we
are going to add can be merged into the last segment or not.

Unfortunately, when the system runs under heavy memory fragmentation
conditions, a driver may try to add multiple pages to the last segment.
The original code won't accept them and EBUSY will be reported to
userspace.

This patch modifies the function so it refuses to add a page only in case
the latter starts a new segment and the maximum number of segments has
already been reached.

The bug can be easily reproduced with the st driver:

1) set CONFIG_SCSI_MPT2SAS_MAX_SGE or CONFIG_SCSI_MPT3SAS_MAX_SGE  to 16
2) modprobe st buffer_kbs=1024
3) #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/st0 bs=1M count=10
   dd: error writing `/dev/st0': Device or resource busy

[ming.lei@canonical.com: update bi_iter.bi_size before recounting segments]
Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Dongsu Park <dongsu.park@profitbricks.com>
Tested-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>