linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone

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Message-ID: <5436CCAF.5040100@suse.com>
Date:	Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:58:07 -0400
From:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
To:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
CC:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Linux Kernel Maling List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast

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On 10/9/14, 12:13 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 10/9/14, 9:53 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>>>> Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> Commit 05f1dd53152173 (block: add queue flag for disabling
>>>>> SG merging) uses bi_vcnt to assign bio->bi_phys_segments if
>>>>> sg merging is disabled. When using device mapper on top of
>>>>> a blk-mq device (virtio_blk in my test), we'd end up
>>>>> overflowing the scatterlist in __blk_bios_map_sg.
>>>>> 
>>>>> __bio_clone_fast copies bi_iter and bi_io_vec but not
>>>>> bi_vcnt, so blk_recount_segments would report
>>>>> bi_phys_segments as 0. Since rq->nr_phys_segments is 0 as
>>>>> well, the checks to ensure that we don't exceed the queue's
>>>>> segment limit end up allowing more bios (and segments) to
>>>>> attach the a request until we finally map it. That also
>>>>> means we pass the BUG_ON at the beginning of 
>>>>> virtio_queue_rq, ultimately causing memory corruption and
>>>>> a crash.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If we copy bi_vcnt in __bio_clone_fast, the bios and
>>>>> requests properly report the number of segments and
>>>>> everything works as expected.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Originally reported at 
>>>>> http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888259
>>>> 
>>>> Hi, Jeff,
>>>> 
>>>> Did you manage to reproduce this problem with commit 0738854 
>>>> (blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments) applied?  Or perhaps
>>>> with commit 200612e (dm table: propagate
>>>> QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE)?
>>> 
>>> Yep. I was able to reproduce it with 3.17. I did try 0738854
>>> when I was still using 3.16 since it looked like a good
>>> candidate. Neither of those patches affect the problem here.
>>> bio->bi_phys_segments never gets a value set in the fast clone
>>> case and that translates to req->nr_phys_segments never getting
>>> properly accumulated. That might not be a problem except that
>>> the NO_SG_MERGE behavior bypasses the iteration that would come
>>> up with the correct value. In either case,
>> 
>> This patch may get incorrect rq->nr_phys_segments because bio
>> cloning is often used in case of I/O splitting, so could you test
>> if the attached patch fixes your problem?

Ah. Right.

> Please ignore last patch and test the attached patch since we still
> should use no sg merge to recalculate req's segments for cloned
> bio.

Yep, this fix works as expected.

Thanks,

- -Jeff

- -- 
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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