On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 08:43:37AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
> 
> A discard cleanup merged into 4.20-rc2 causes fstests xfs/259 to
> fall into an endless loop in the discard code. The test is creating
> a device that is exactly 2^32 sectors in size to test mkfs boundary
> conditions around the 32 bit sector overflow region.
> 
> mkfs issues a discard for the entire device size by default, and
> hence this throws a sector count of 2^32 into
> blkdev_issue_discard(). It takes the number of sectors to discard as
> a sector_t - a 64 bit value.
> 
> The commit ba5d73851e71 ("block: cleanup __blkdev_issue_discard")
> takes this sector count and casts it to a 32 bit value before
> comapring it against the maximum allowed discard size the device
> has. This truncates away the upper 32 bits, and so if the lower 32
> bits of the sector count is zero, it starts issuing discards of
> length 0. This causes the code to fall into an endless loop, issuing
> a zero length discards over and over again on the same sector.
> 
> Fixes: ba5d73851e71 ("block: cleanup __blkdev_issue_discard")
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>

Fixes the regression for me too, so...

Tested-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>

--D

> ---
>  block/blk-lib.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c
> index e8b3bb9bf375..144e156ed341 100644
> --- a/block/blk-lib.c
> +++ b/block/blk-lib.c
> @@ -55,9 +55,12 @@ int __blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, 
> sector_t sector,
>               return -EINVAL;
>  
>       while (nr_sects) {
> -             unsigned int req_sects = min_t(unsigned int, nr_sects,
> +             sector_t req_sects = min_t(sector_t, nr_sects,
>                               bio_allowed_max_sectors(q));
>  
> +             WARN_ON_ONCE(req_sects == 0);
> +             WARN_ON_ONCE((req_sects << 9) > UINT_MAX);
> +
>               bio = blk_next_bio(bio, 0, gfp_mask);
>               bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = sector;
>               bio_set_dev(bio, bdev);
> -- 
> 2.19.1
> 

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