Re: [PATCH] block: warn once for cloned bio in bio_for_each_segment_all()

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For one cloned bio, kernel shouldn't touch all segments of this
> bio via the helper, because the bvec table is shared among all
> related bios, so warn once for this usage.
>
> This change should catch recent memory corruption issue, which is
> fixed by 23688bf4f830(block: ensure to split after potentially
> bouncing a bio).
>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/bio.h | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
> index b9b6e04..b4a298d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/bio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bio.h
> @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ static inline void *bio_data(struct bio *bio)
>   * before it got to the driver and the driver won't own all of it
>   */
>  #define bio_for_each_segment_all(bvl, bio, i)                          \
> +       WARN_ON_ONCE(bio_flagged(bio, BIO_CLONED));                     \

All this will do is spit out a backtrace.  It doesn't prevent the
corruption from happening, and it requires a user to know to report it
upstream.  That tends to be iffy, as they're more likely to report the
latest issue found in dmesg, which will have occurred after the
corruption.  Is that really the behavior you want?

josh

>         for (i = 0, bvl = (bio)->bi_io_vec; i < (bio)->bi_vcnt; i++, bvl++)
>
>  static inline void bvec_iter_advance(struct bio_vec *bv, struct bvec_iter *iter,
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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