tree 8009f078e8f8f6b96581216923b39b9e0e9bdc2c
parent 06a41a99d13d8e919e9a00a4849e6b85ae492592
author Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com> 1418249813 -0800
committer Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> 1418314312 -0700

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

Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>