[PATCH 1/1] block: Set same_page to false in __bio_try_merge_page if ret is false

From: Ritesh Harjani
Date: Fri Aug 21 2020 - 14:11:41 EST


If we hit the UINT_MAX limit of bio->bi_iter.bi_size and so we are anyway
not merging this page in this bio, then it make sense to make same_page
also as false before returning.

Without this patch, we hit below WARNING in iomap.
This mostly happens with very large memory system and / or after tweaking
vm dirty threshold params to delay writeback of dirty data.

WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 5130 at fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:74 iomap_page_release+0x120/0x150
CPU: 18 PID: 5130 Comm: fio Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 5.8.0-rc3 #6
Call Trace:
__remove_mapping+0x154/0x320 (unreliable)
iomap_releasepage+0x80/0x180
try_to_release_page+0x94/0xe0
invalidate_inode_page+0xc8/0x110
invalidate_mapping_pages+0x1dc/0x540
generic_fadvise+0x3c8/0x450
xfs_file_fadvise+0x2c/0xe0 [xfs]
vfs_fadvise+0x3c/0x60
ksys_fadvise64_64+0x68/0xe0
sys_fadvise64+0x28/0x40
system_call_exception+0xf8/0x1c0
system_call_common+0xf0/0x278

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
[prev discussion]:- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11723453/

block/bio.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index a7366c02c9b5..675ecd81047b 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -877,8 +877,10 @@ bool __bio_try_merge_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
struct bio_vec *bv = &bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_vcnt - 1];

if (page_is_mergeable(bv, page, len, off, same_page)) {
- if (bio->bi_iter.bi_size > UINT_MAX - len)
+ if (bio->bi_iter.bi_size > UINT_MAX - len) {
+ *same_page = false;
return false;
+ }
bv->bv_len += len;
bio->bi_iter.bi_size += len;
return true;
--
2.25.4