[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm: max_segments=1 if merge_bvec_fn is not supported

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Neil Brown wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 22:10:13 +0100
> Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote:
> 
> > If the lower device exposes a merge_bvec_fn,
> > dm_set_device_limits() restricts max_sectors
> > to PAGE_SIZE "just to be safe".
> > 
> > This is not sufficient, however.
> > 
> > If someone uses bio_add_page() to add 8 disjunct 512 byte partial
> > pages to a bio, it would succeed, but could still cross a border
> > of whatever restrictions are below us (e.g. raid10 stripe boundary).
> > An attempted bio_split() would not succeed, because bi_vcnt is 8.
> > 
> > One example that triggered this frequently is the xen io layer.
> > 
> > raid10_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 209265151 1
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lars <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Neil: you may want to double check linear.c and raid*.c for similar logic,
> > even though it is unlikely that someone puts md raid6 on top of something
> > exposing a merge_bvec_fn.
> > 
> 
> Unlikely, but by no means impossible.  I have queued up an appropriate fix
> for md.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> NeilBrown

Hi

That patch with limits->max_segments = 1; is wrong. It fixes this bug 
sometimes and sometimes not.

The problem is, if someone attempts to create a bio with two vector 
entries, the first maps the last sector contained in some page and the 
second maps the first sector of the next physical page: it has one 
segment, it has size <= PAGE_SIZE, but it still may cross raid stripe and 
the raid driver will reject it.

> > This is not the first time this has been patched, btw.
> > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440093
> > and the patch by Mikulas:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=342638&action=diff

Look at this patch, it is the proper way how to fix it: create a 
merge_bvec_fn that reject more than one biovec entry.

Mikulas

> > ---
> >  drivers/md/dm-table.c |   12 ++++++++++--
> >  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> > index 4b22feb..c686ff4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> > @@ -515,14 +515,22 @@ int dm_set_device_limits(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev,
> >  
> >  	/*
> >  	 * Check if merge fn is supported.
> > -	 * If not we'll force DM to use PAGE_SIZE or
> > +	 * If not we'll force DM to use single bio_vec of PAGE_SIZE or
> >  	 * smaller I/O, just to be safe.
> >  	 */
> >  
> > -	if (q->merge_bvec_fn && !ti->type->merge)
> > +	if (q->merge_bvec_fn && !ti->type->merge) {
> >  		limits->max_sectors =
> >  			min_not_zero(limits->max_sectors,
> >  				     (unsigned int) (PAGE_SIZE >> 9));
> > +		/* Restricting max_sectors is not enough.
> > +		 * If someone uses bio_add_page to add 8 disjunct 512 byte
> > +		 * partial pages to a bio, it would succeed,
> > +		 * but could still cross a border of whatever restrictions
> > +		 * are below us (e.g. raid0 stripe boundary).  An attempted
> > +		 * bio_split() would not succeed, because bi_vcnt is 8. */
> > +		limits->max_segments = 1;
> > +	}
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_set_device_limits);
>