2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Mikulas Patocka commit d659e6cc98766a1a61d6bdd283f95d149abd7719 upstream. dm-io calls bio_get_nr_vecs to get the maximum number of pages to use for a given device. It allocates one additional bio_vec to use internally but failed to respect BIO_MAX_PAGES, so fix this. This was the likely cause of: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=173153 Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/dm-io.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/dm-io.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-io.c @@ -292,6 +292,8 @@ static void do_region(int rw, unsigned r (PAGE_SIZE >> SECTOR_SHIFT)); num_bvecs = 1 + min_t(int, bio_get_nr_vecs(where->bdev), num_bvecs); + if (unlikely(num_bvecs > BIO_MAX_PAGES)) + num_bvecs = BIO_MAX_PAGES; bio = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOIO, num_bvecs, io->client->bios); bio->bi_sector = where->sector + (where->count - remaining); bio->bi_bdev = where->bdev; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/