linux-kernel - [PATCH] block: don't optimize for non-cloned bio in bio_get_last

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Date:	Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:56:19 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagig@....mellanox.co.il>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] block: don't optimize for non-cloned bio in bio_get_last_bvec()

For !BIO_CLONED bio, we can use .bi_vcnt safely, but it
doesn't mean we can just simply return .bi_io_vec[.bi_vcnt - 1]
because the start postion may have been moved in the middle of
the bvec, such as splitting in the middle of bvec.

Fixes: 7bcd79ac50d9(block: bio: introduce helpers to get the 1st and last bvec)
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reported-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
---
Jens, I am fine with either reverting previous patchset or
applying this one to v4.5, and you decide it.

Thanks Kent for reporting the issue!

 include/linux/bio.h | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 1e7248f..4abc129 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -267,11 +267,6 @@ static inline void bio_get_last_bvec(struct bio *bio, struct bio_vec *bv)
 	struct bvec_iter iter = bio->bi_iter;
 	int idx;
 
-	if (!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_CLONED)) {
-		*bv = bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_vcnt - 1];
-		return;
-	}
-
 	if (unlikely(!bio_multiple_segments(bio))) {
 		*bv = bio_iovec(bio);
 		return;
-- 
1.9.1