Re: IO errors after "block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()"

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Dec 20 2015 - 13:18:09 EST


On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 09:51:14AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Kent, Jens, Christoph et al,
> please see this bugzilla:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109661
>
> where Artem Tashkinov bisected his problems with 4.3 down to commit
> b54ffb73cadc ("block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()") that you've all
> signed off on.

Artem,

can you re-check the commits around this series again? I would be
extremtly surprised if it's really this particular commit and not
one just before it causing the problem - it just allocates bios
to the biggest possible instead of only allocating up to what
bio_add_page would accept.
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