dm: revert 8f50e35 ("dm: limit the max bio size as BIO_MAX_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE")

Mikulas Patocka · snitm · commit 75ae193626de · 2019-04-01T16:20:36.000-04:00
The limit was already incorporated to dm-crypt with commit 4e870e9 ("dm crypt: fix error with too large bios"), so we don't need to apply it globally to all targets. The quantity BIO_MAX_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE is wrong anyway because the variable ti->max_io_len it is supposed to be in the units of 512-byte sectors not in bytes. Reduction of the limit to 1048576 sectors could even cause data corruption in rare cases - suppose that we have a dm-striped device with stripe size 768MiB. The target will call dm_set_target_max_io_len with the value 1572864. The buggy code would reduce it to 1048576. Now, the dm-core will errorneously split the bios on 1048576-sector boundary insetad of 1572864-sector boundary and pass these stripe-crossing bios to the striped target. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.16+ Fixes: 8f50e35 ("dm: limit the max bio size as BIO_MAX_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE") Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1042,15 +1042,7 @@ int dm_set_target_max_io_len(struct dm_target *ti, sector_t len)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * BIO based queue uses its own splitting. When multipage bvecs
-	 * is switched on, size of the incoming bio may be too big to
-	 * be handled in some targets, such as crypt.
-	 *
-	 * When these targets are ready for the big bio, we can remove
-	 * the limit.
-	 */
-	ti->max_io_len = min_t(uint32_t, len, BIO_MAX_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE);
+	ti->max_io_len = (uint32_t) len;
 
 	return 0;
 }
