On 2020/07/03 0:42, Kanchan Joshi wrote: > avoid returning success when it should report failure, preventing > odd behavior in caller.
You can be more precise here: the odd behavior is an infinite loop in bio_iov_iter_get_pages() whcih is is the only user of __bio_iov_append_get_pages(). > > Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi <josh...@samsung.com> > Signed-off-by: Selvakumar S <selvakuma...@samsung.com> > Signed-off-by: Nitesh Shetty <nj.she...@samsung.com> > Signed-off-by: Javier Gonzalez <javier.g...@samsung.com> > --- > block/bio.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c > index a7366c0..0cecdbc 100644 > --- a/block/bio.c > +++ b/block/bio.c > @@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ static int __bio_iov_append_get_pages(struct bio *bio, > struct iov_iter *iter) > size_t offset; > > if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!max_append_sectors)) > - return 0; > + return -EINVAL; > > /* > * Move page array up in the allocated memory for the bio vecs as far as > Note: the odd behavior mentioned in the commit message cannot currently be triggered since only zonefs issues REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND BIOs so we are guaranteed that max_append_sectors is not 0 in that case. But this fix certainly makes things more solid. So: Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lem...@wdc.com> -- Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research
