Re: [PATCH 1/5] zram: handle multiple pages attached bio's bvec

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Apr 04 2017 - 00:55:13 EST


On (04/03/17 14:17), Minchan Kim wrote:
> Johannes Thumshirn reported system goes the panic when using NVMe over
> Fabrics loopback target with zram.
>
> The reason is zram expects each bvec in bio contains a single page
> but nvme can attach a huge bulk of pages attached to the bio's bvec
> so that zram's index arithmetic could be wrong so that out-of-bound
> access makes panic.
>
> It can be solved by limiting max_sectors with SECTORS_PER_PAGE like
> [1] but it makes zram slow because bio should split with each pages
> so this patch makes zram aware of multiple pages in a bvec so it
> could solve without any regression.
>
> [1] 0bc315381fe9, zram: set physical queue limits to avoid array out of
> bounds accesses
>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>


> + unsigned int remained = bvec.bv_len;
...
> + } while (remained);

a tiny nitpick, "-ed" in variable name looks a bit unusual.

-ss