linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 058/370] md/raid5: limit request size according to implementation limits

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Date:   Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:46:22 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        "Konstantin Khlebnikov" <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        "Shaohua Li" <shli@...nel.org>, "Neil Brown" <neilb@...e.com>,
        "Shaohua Li" <shli@...com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 058/370] md/raid5: limit request size according to
 implementation limits

3.16.42-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>

commit e8d7c33232e5fdfa761c3416539bc5b4acd12db5 upstream.

Current implementation employ 16bit counter of active stripes in lower
bits of bio->bi_phys_segments. If request is big enough to overflow
this counter bio will be completed and freed too early.

Fortunately this not happens in default configuration because several
other limits prevent that: stripe_cache_size * nr_disks effectively
limits count of active stripes. And small max_sectors_kb at lower
disks prevent that during normal read/write operations.

Overflow easily happens in discard if it's enabled by module parameter
"devices_handle_discard_safely" and stripe_cache_size is set big enough.

This patch limits requests size with 256Mb - 8Kb to prevent overflows.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@...com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/md/raid5.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -6222,6 +6222,15 @@ static int run(struct mddev *mddev)
 			stripe = (stripe | (stripe-1)) + 1;
 		mddev->queue->limits.discard_alignment = stripe;
 		mddev->queue->limits.discard_granularity = stripe;
+
+		/*
+		 * We use 16-bit counter of active stripes in bi_phys_segments
+		 * (minus one for over-loaded initialization)
+		 */
+		blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(mddev->queue, 0xfffe * STRIPE_SECTORS);
+		blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(mddev->queue,
+					      0xfffe * STRIPE_SECTORS);
+
 		/*
 		 * unaligned part of discard request will be ignored, so can't
 		 * guarantee discard_zeroes_data