[PATCH v4] block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs

[Ming Lei]

After arbitrary bio size is supported, the incoming bio may
be very big. We have to split the bio into small bios so that
each holds at most BIO_MAX_PAGES bvecs for safety reason, such
as bio_clone().

This patch fixes the following kernel crash:

> [  172.660142] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
> [  172.660229] IP: [<ffffffff811e53b4>] bio_trim+0xf/0x2a
> [  172.660289] PGD 7faf3e067 PUD 7f9279067 PMD 0
> [  172.660399] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [...]
> [  172.664780] Call Trace:
> [  172.664813]  [<ffffffffa007f3be>] ? raid1_make_request+0x2e8/0xad7 [raid1]
> [  172.664846]  [<ffffffff811f07da>] ? blk_queue_split+0x377/0x3d4
> [  172.664880]  [<ffffffffa005fb5f>] ? md_make_request+0xf6/0x1e9 [md_mod]
> [  172.664912]  [<ffffffff811eb860>] ? generic_make_request+0xb5/0x155
> [  172.664947]  [<ffffffffa0445c89>] ? prio_io+0x85/0x95 [bcache]
> [  172.664981]  [<ffffffffa0448252>] ? register_cache_set+0x355/0x8d0 [bcache]
> [  172.665016]  [<ffffffffa04497d3>] ? register_bcache+0x1006/0x1174 [bcache]

The issue can be reproduced by the following steps:
	- create one raid1 over two virtio-blk
	- build bcache device over the above raid1 and another cache device
	and bucket size is set as 2Mbytes
	- set cache mode as writeback
	- run random write over ext4 on the bcache device

Fixes: 54efd50(block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios)
Reported-by: Sebastian Roesner <sroesner-kernelorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (4.3+)
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
V4:
	- don't consider merging this kind of bio which is splitted
	because of reaching max bvec limit for making change simple,
	as requested by Christoph and Kent
V3:
	- rebase against v4.8-rc1 since .bi_rw of bio is renamed
	as .bi_opf

V2:
	- don't mark as REQ_NOMERGE in case the bio is splitted
	for reaching the limit of bvecs count
V1:
	- Kent pointed out that using max io size can't cover
	the case of non-full bvecs/pages


 block/blk-merge.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
index 3eec75a..f6ae884 100644
--- a/block/blk-merge.c
+++ b/block/blk-merge.c
@@ -94,9 +94,31 @@ static struct bio *blk_bio_segment_split(struct request_queue *q,
 	bool do_split = true;
 	struct bio *new = NULL;
 	const unsigned max_sectors = get_max_io_size(q, bio);
+	unsigned bvecs = 0;
 
 	bio_for_each_segment(bv, bio, iter) {
 		/*
+		 * With arbitrary bio size, the incoming bio may be very
+		 * big. We have to split the bio into small bios so that
+		 * each holds at most BIO_MAX_PAGES bvecs because
+		 * bio_clone() can fail to allocate big bvecs.
+		 *
+		 * It should have been better to apply the limit per
+		 * request queue in which bio_clone() is involved,
+		 * instead of globally. The biggest blocker is the
+		 * bio_clone() in bio bounce.
+		 *
+		 * If bio is splitted by this reason, we should have
+		 * allowed to continue bios merging, but don't do
+		 * that now for making the change simple.
+		 *
+		 * TODO: deal with bio bounce's bio_clone() gracefully
+		 * and convert the global limit into per-queue limit.
+		 */
+		if (bvecs++ >= BIO_MAX_PAGES)
+			goto split;
+
+		/*
 		 * If the queue doesn't support SG gaps and adding this
 		 * offset would create a gap, disallow it.
 		 */
-- 
2.7.4