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| author |   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> | 2012-02-02 16:51:24 -0500 |
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| committer |   Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> | 2012-02-07 06:48:46 +0000 |
| commit | 5c55125f4794f4e77574fc09839cb47b0eb45b06 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e35bfcfe983dee5d5afbf0437dd3ff5f9a4938a /drivers | |
| parent | target: handle empty string writes in sysfs (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-5c55125f4794f4e77574fc09839cb47b0eb45b06.tar.xz linux-dev-5c55125f4794f4e77574fc09839cb47b0eb45b06.zip | |
iblock: fix handling of large requests
Requesting to many bvecs upsets bio_alloc_bioset, so limit the number we ask
for to the amount it can handle.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c b/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c index d43d5eb5ed20..8572eae62da7 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c @@ -488,6 +488,13 @@ iblock_get_bio(struct se_task *task, sector_t lba, u32 sg_num) struct iblock_req *ib_req = IBLOCK_REQ(task); struct bio *bio; + /* + * Only allocate as many vector entries as the bio code allows us to, + * we'll loop later on until we have handled the whole request. + */ + if (sg_num > BIO_MAX_PAGES) + sg_num = BIO_MAX_PAGES; + bio = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOIO, sg_num, ib_dev->ibd_bio_set); if (!bio) { pr_err("Unable to allocate memory for bio\n"); |