Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 20/22] block: Allow bio_iov_iter_get_pages() with bio->bi_bdev unset

[Jens Axboe]

On 9/11/23 3:54 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 168145f617d57bf4e474901b7ffa869337a802e6 ]
>>
>> bio_iov_iter_get_pages() trims the IO based on the block size of the
>> block device the IO will be issued to.
>>
>> However, bcachefs is a multi device filesystem; when we're creating the
>> bio we don't yet know which block device the bio will be submitted to -
>> we have to handle the alignment checks elsewhere.
>>
>> Thus this is needed to avoid a null ptr deref.
> 
> We are certainly not going to backport bcachefs to -stable. Please
> drop.

I already said as much 3 days ago:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/cd341326-cfaf-4796-8894-2241e7b630d9@xxxxxxxxx/

but didn't hear back yet.

-- 
Jens Axboe