linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 20/22] block: Allow bio_iov_iter_get_pages() with bio->bi

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Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:57:55 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 20/22] block: Allow bio_iov_iter_get_pages()
 with bio->bi_bdev unset

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 07:15:18AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>On 9/11/23 3:54 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>> From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
>>>
>>> [ Upstream commit 168145f617d57bf4e474901b7ffa869337a802e6 ]
>>>
>>> bio_iov_iter_get_pages() trims the IO based on the block size of the
>>> block device the IO will be issued to.
>>>
>>> However, bcachefs is a multi device filesystem; when we're creating the
>>> bio we don't yet know which block device the bio will be submitted to -
>>> we have to handle the alignment checks elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Thus this is needed to avoid a null ptr deref.
>>
>> We are certainly not going to backport bcachefs to -stable. Please
>> drop.
>
>I already said as much 3 days ago:
>
>https://lore.kernel.org/all/cd341326-cfaf-4796-8894-2241e7b630d9@kernel.dk/
>
>but didn't hear back yet.

Dropped, and sorry for lack of timely replies on this - I let them
collect feedback for a few weeks before going through it and dropping
what needs to be dropped.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha