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<title>md/raid10: always initialise -&gt;state on newly allocated r10_bio</title>
<updated>2014-08-19T07:20:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-18T04:38:45+00:00</published>
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Most places which allocate an r10_bio zero the -&gt;state, some don't.
As the r10_bio comes from a mempool, and the allocation function uses
kzalloc it is often zero anyway.  But sometimes it isn't and it is
best to be safe.

I only noticed this because of the bug fixed by an earlier patch
where the r10_bios allocated for a reshape were left around to
be used by a subsequent resync.  In that case the R10BIO_IsReshape
flag caused problems.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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Most places which allocate an r10_bio zero the -&gt;state, some don't.
As the r10_bio comes from a mempool, and the allocation function uses
kzalloc it is often zero anyway.  But sometimes it isn't and it is
best to be safe.

I only noticed this because of the bug fixed by an earlier patch
where the r10_bios allocated for a reshape were left around to
be used by a subsequent resync.  In that case the R10BIO_IsReshape
flag caused problems.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md/raid10: avoid memory leak on error path during reshape.</title>
<updated>2014-08-19T07:20:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-18T04:48:54+00:00</published>
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If raid10 reshape fails to find somewhere to read a block
from, it returns without freeing memory...

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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If raid10 reshape fails to find somewhere to read a block
from, it returns without freeing memory...

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md/raid10: Fix memory leak when raid10 reshape completes.</title>
<updated>2014-08-19T07:20:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-18T03:59:50+00:00</published>
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When a raid10 commences a resync/recovery/reshape it allocates
some buffer space.
When a resync/recovery completes the buffer space is freed.  But not
when the reshape completes.
This can result in a small memory leak.

There is a subtle side-effect of this bug.  When a RAID10 is reshaped
to a larger array (more devices), the reshape is immediately followed
by a "resync" of the new space.  This "resync" will use the buffer
space which was allocated for "reshape".  This can cause problems
including a "BUG" in the SCSI layer.  So this is suitable for -stable.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.5+)
Fixes: 3ea7daa5d7fde47cd41f4d56c2deb949114da9d6
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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When a raid10 commences a resync/recovery/reshape it allocates
some buffer space.
When a resync/recovery completes the buffer space is freed.  But not
when the reshape completes.
This can result in a small memory leak.

There is a subtle side-effect of this bug.  When a RAID10 is reshaped
to a larger array (more devices), the reshape is immediately followed
by a "resync" of the new space.  This "resync" will use the buffer
space which was allocated for "reshape".  This can cause problems
including a "BUG" in the SCSI layer.  So this is suitable for -stable.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.5+)
Fixes: 3ea7daa5d7fde47cd41f4d56c2deb949114da9d6
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md/raid10: fix memory leak when reshaping a RAID10.</title>
<updated>2014-08-19T07:20:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-18T03:56:38+00:00</published>
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raid10 reshape clears unwanted bits from a bio-&gt;bi_flags using
a method which, while clumsy, worked until 3.10 when BIO_OWNS_VEC
was added.
Since then it clears that bit but shouldn't.  This results in a
memory leak.

So change to used the approved method of clearing unwanted bits.

As this causes a memory leak which can consume all of memory
the fix is suitable for -stable.

Fixes: a38352e0ac02dbbd4fa464dc22d1352b5fbd06fd
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.10+)
Reported-by: mdraid.pkoch@dfgh.net (Peter Koch)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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raid10 reshape clears unwanted bits from a bio-&gt;bi_flags using
a method which, while clumsy, worked until 3.10 when BIO_OWNS_VEC
was added.
Since then it clears that bit but shouldn't.  This results in a
memory leak.

So change to used the approved method of clearing unwanted bits.

As this causes a memory leak which can consume all of memory
the fix is suitable for -stable.

Fixes: a38352e0ac02dbbd4fa464dc22d1352b5fbd06fd
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.10+)
Reported-by: mdraid.pkoch@dfgh.net (Peter Koch)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>md/raid6: avoid data corruption during recovery of double-degraded RAID6</title>
<updated>2014-08-18T04:49:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-12T23:57:07+00:00</published>
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During recovery of a double-degraded RAID6 it is possible for
some blocks not to be recovered properly, leading to corruption.

If a write happens to one block in a stripe that would be written to a
missing device, and at the same time that stripe is recovering data
to the other missing device, then that recovered data may not be written.

This patch skips, in the double-degraded case, an optimisation that is
only safe for single-degraded arrays.

Bug was introduced in 2.6.32 and fix is suitable for any kernel since
then.  In an older kernel with separate handle_stripe5() and
handle_stripe6() functions the patch must change handle_stripe6().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (2.6.32+)
Fixes: 6c0069c0ae9659e3a91b68eaed06a5c6c37f45c8
Cc: Yuri Tikhonov &lt;yur@emcraft.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: "Manibalan P" &lt;pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in&gt;
Tested-by: "Manibalan P" &lt;pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in&gt;
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090423
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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During recovery of a double-degraded RAID6 it is possible for
some blocks not to be recovered properly, leading to corruption.

If a write happens to one block in a stripe that would be written to a
missing device, and at the same time that stripe is recovering data
to the other missing device, then that recovered data may not be written.

This patch skips, in the double-degraded case, an optimisation that is
only safe for single-degraded arrays.

Bug was introduced in 2.6.32 and fix is suitable for any kernel since
then.  In an older kernel with separate handle_stripe5() and
handle_stripe6() functions the patch must change handle_stripe6().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (2.6.32+)
Fixes: 6c0069c0ae9659e3a91b68eaed06a5c6c37f45c8
Cc: Yuri Tikhonov &lt;yur@emcraft.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: "Manibalan P" &lt;pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in&gt;
Tested-by: "Manibalan P" &lt;pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in&gt;
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090423
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md/raid5: avoid livelock caused by non-aligned writes.</title>
<updated>2014-08-18T04:49:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-12T23:48:45+00:00</published>
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If a stripe in a raid6 array received a write to each data block while
the array is degraded, and if any of these writes to a missing device
are not page-aligned, then a live-lock happens.

In this case the P and Q blocks need to be read so that the part of
the missing block which is *not* being updated by the write can be
constructed.  Due to a logic error, these blocks are not loaded, so
the update cannot proceed and the stripe is 'handled' repeatedly in an
infinite loop.

This bug is unlikely as most writes are page aligned.  However as it
can lead to a livelock it is suitable for -stable.  It was introduced
in 3.16.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.16)
Fixed: 67f455486d2ea20b2d94d6adf5b9b783d079e321
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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If a stripe in a raid6 array received a write to each data block while
the array is degraded, and if any of these writes to a missing device
are not page-aligned, then a live-lock happens.

In this case the P and Q blocks need to be read so that the part of
the missing block which is *not* being updated by the write can be
constructed.  Due to a logic error, these blocks are not loaded, so
the update cannot proceed and the stripe is 'handled' repeatedly in an
infinite loop.

This bug is unlikely as most writes are page aligned.  However as it
can lead to a livelock it is suitable for -stable.  It was introduced
in 3.16.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.16)
Fixed: 67f455486d2ea20b2d94d6adf5b9b783d079e321
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dm-3.17-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2014-08-14T15:17:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-14T15:17:56+00:00</published>
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Pull device mapper changes from Mike Snitzer:

 - Allow the thin target to paired with any size external origin; also
   allow thin snapshots to be larger than the external origin.

 - Add support for quickly loading a repetitive pattern into the
   dm-switch target.

 - Use per-bio data in the dm-crypt target instead of always using a
   mempool for each allocation.  Required switching to kmalloc alignment
   for the bio slab.

 - Fix DM core to properly stack the QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE flag

 - Fix the dm-cache and dm-thin targets' export of the minimum_io_size
   to match the data block size -- this fixes an issue where mkfs.xfs
   would improperly infer raid striping was in place on the underlying
   storage.

 - Small cleanups in dm-io, dm-mpath and dm-cache

* tag 'dm-3.17-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE
  dm switch: efficiently support repetitive patterns
  dm switch: factor out switch_region_table_read
  dm cache: set minimum_io_size to cache's data block size
  dm thin: set minimum_io_size to pool's data block size
  dm crypt: use per-bio data
  block: use kmalloc alignment for bio slab
  dm table: make dm_table_supports_discards static
  dm cache metadata: use dm-space-map-metadata.h defined size limits
  dm cache: fail migrations in the do_worker error path
  dm cache: simplify deferred set reference count increments
  dm thin: relax external origin size constraints
  dm thin: switch to an atomic_t for tracking pending new block preparations
  dm mpath: eliminate pg_ready() wrapper
  dm io: simplify dec_count and sync_io
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Pull device mapper changes from Mike Snitzer:

 - Allow the thin target to paired with any size external origin; also
   allow thin snapshots to be larger than the external origin.

 - Add support for quickly loading a repetitive pattern into the
   dm-switch target.

 - Use per-bio data in the dm-crypt target instead of always using a
   mempool for each allocation.  Required switching to kmalloc alignment
   for the bio slab.

 - Fix DM core to properly stack the QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE flag

 - Fix the dm-cache and dm-thin targets' export of the minimum_io_size
   to match the data block size -- this fixes an issue where mkfs.xfs
   would improperly infer raid striping was in place on the underlying
   storage.

 - Small cleanups in dm-io, dm-mpath and dm-cache

* tag 'dm-3.17-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE
  dm switch: efficiently support repetitive patterns
  dm switch: factor out switch_region_table_read
  dm cache: set minimum_io_size to cache's data block size
  dm thin: set minimum_io_size to pool's data block size
  dm crypt: use per-bio data
  block: use kmalloc alignment for bio slab
  dm table: make dm_table_supports_discards static
  dm cache metadata: use dm-space-map-metadata.h defined size limits
  dm cache: fail migrations in the do_worker error path
  dm cache: simplify deferred set reference count increments
  dm thin: relax external origin size constraints
  dm thin: switch to an atomic_t for tracking pending new block preparations
  dm mpath: eliminate pg_ready() wrapper
  dm io: simplify dec_count and sync_io
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.17/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-08-14T15:10:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-14T15:10:21+00:00</published>
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Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:
 "Nothing out of the ordinary here, this pull request contains:

   - A big round of fixes for bcache from Kent Overstreet, Slava Pestov,
     and Surbhi Palande.  No new features, just a lot of fixes.

   - The usual round of drbd updates from Andreas Gruenbacher, Lars
     Ellenberg, and Philipp Reisner.

   - virtio_blk was converted to blk-mq back in 3.13, but now Ming Lei
     has taken it one step further and added support for actually using
     more than one queue.

   - Addition of an explicit SG_FLAG_Q_AT_HEAD for block/bsg, to
     compliment the the default behavior of adding to the tail of the
     queue.  From Douglas Gilbert"

* 'for-3.17/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (86 commits)
  bcache: Drop unneeded blk_sync_queue() calls
  bcache: add mutex lock for bch_is_open
  bcache: Correct printing of btree_gc_max_duration_ms
  bcache: try to set b-&gt;parent properly
  bcache: fix memory corruption in init error path
  bcache: fix crash with incomplete cache set
  bcache: Fix more early shutdown bugs
  bcache: fix use-after-free in btree_gc_coalesce()
  bcache: Fix an infinite loop in journal replay
  bcache: fix crash in bcache_btree_node_alloc_fail tracepoint
  bcache: bcache_write tracepoint was crashing
  bcache: fix typo in bch_bkey_equal_header
  bcache: Allocate bounce buffers with GFP_NOWAIT
  bcache: Make sure to pass GFP_WAIT to mempool_alloc()
  bcache: fix uninterruptible sleep in writeback thread
  bcache: wait for buckets when allocating new btree root
  bcache: fix crash on shutdown in passthrough mode
  bcache: fix lockdep warnings on shutdown
  bcache allocator: send discards with correct size
  bcache: Fix to remove the rcu_sched stalls.
  ...
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Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:
 "Nothing out of the ordinary here, this pull request contains:

   - A big round of fixes for bcache from Kent Overstreet, Slava Pestov,
     and Surbhi Palande.  No new features, just a lot of fixes.

   - The usual round of drbd updates from Andreas Gruenbacher, Lars
     Ellenberg, and Philipp Reisner.

   - virtio_blk was converted to blk-mq back in 3.13, but now Ming Lei
     has taken it one step further and added support for actually using
     more than one queue.

   - Addition of an explicit SG_FLAG_Q_AT_HEAD for block/bsg, to
     compliment the the default behavior of adding to the tail of the
     queue.  From Douglas Gilbert"

* 'for-3.17/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (86 commits)
  bcache: Drop unneeded blk_sync_queue() calls
  bcache: add mutex lock for bch_is_open
  bcache: Correct printing of btree_gc_max_duration_ms
  bcache: try to set b-&gt;parent properly
  bcache: fix memory corruption in init error path
  bcache: fix crash with incomplete cache set
  bcache: Fix more early shutdown bugs
  bcache: fix use-after-free in btree_gc_coalesce()
  bcache: Fix an infinite loop in journal replay
  bcache: fix crash in bcache_btree_node_alloc_fail tracepoint
  bcache: bcache_write tracepoint was crashing
  bcache: fix typo in bch_bkey_equal_header
  bcache: Allocate bounce buffers with GFP_NOWAIT
  bcache: Make sure to pass GFP_WAIT to mempool_alloc()
  bcache: fix uninterruptible sleep in writeback thread
  bcache: wait for buckets when allocating new btree root
  bcache: fix crash on shutdown in passthrough mode
  bcache: fix lockdep warnings on shutdown
  bcache allocator: send discards with correct size
  bcache: Fix to remove the rcu_sched stalls.
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'md/3.17' of git://neil.brown.name/md</title>
<updated>2014-08-11T14:02:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-11T14:02:35+00:00</published>
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Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
 "Most interesting is that md devices (major == 9) with minor numbers of
  512 or more will no longer be created simply by opening a block device
  file.  They can only be created by writing to

      /sys/module/md_mod/parameters/new_array

  The 'auto-create-on-open' semantic is cumbersome and we need to start
  moving away from it"

* tag 'md/3.17' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: don't allow bitmap file to be added to raid0/linear.
  md/raid0: check for bitmap compatability when changing raid levels.
  md: Recovery speed is wrong
  md: disable probing for md devices 512 and over.
  md/raid1,raid10: always abort recover on write error.
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Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
 "Most interesting is that md devices (major == 9) with minor numbers of
  512 or more will no longer be created simply by opening a block device
  file.  They can only be created by writing to

      /sys/module/md_mod/parameters/new_array

  The 'auto-create-on-open' semantic is cumbersome and we need to start
  moving away from it"

* tag 'md/3.17' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: don't allow bitmap file to be added to raid0/linear.
  md/raid0: check for bitmap compatability when changing raid levels.
  md: Recovery speed is wrong
  md: disable probing for md devices 512 and over.
  md/raid1,raid10: always abort recover on write error.
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE</title>
<updated>2014-08-11T00:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Moyer</name>
<email>jmoyer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-08T15:03:41+00:00</published>
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Commit 05f1dd5 ("block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging")
introduced a new queue flag: QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE.  This gets set by
default in blk_mq_init_queue for mq-enabled devices.  The effect of
the flag is to bypass the SG segment merging.  Instead, the
bio-&gt;bi_vcnt is used as the number of hardware segments.

With a device mapper target on top of a device with
QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE set, we can end up sending down more segments
than a driver is prepared to handle.  I ran into this when backporting
the virtio_blk mq support.  It triggerred this BUG_ON, in
virtio_queue_rq:

        BUG_ON(req-&gt;nr_phys_segments + 2 &gt; vblk-&gt;sg_elems);

The queue's max is set here:
        blk_queue_max_segments(q, vblk-&gt;sg_elems-2);

Basically, what happens is that a bio is built up for the dm device
(which does not have the QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE flag set) using
bio_add_page.  That path will call into __blk_recalc_rq_segments, so
what you end up with is bi_phys_segments being much smaller than bi_vcnt
(and bi_vcnt grows beyond the maximum sg elements).  Then, when the bio
is submitted, it gets cloned.  When the cloned bio is submitted, it will
end up in blk_recount_segments, here:

        if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE, &amp;q-&gt;queue_flags))
                bio-&gt;bi_phys_segments = bio-&gt;bi_vcnt;

and now we've set bio-&gt;bi_phys_segments to a number that is beyond what
was registered as queue_max_segments by the driver.

The right way to fix this is to propagate the queue flag up the stack.

The rules for propagating the flag are simple:
- if the flag is set for any underlying device, it must be set for the
  upper device
- consequently, if the flag is not set for any underlying device, it
  should not be set for the upper device.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
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Commit 05f1dd5 ("block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging")
introduced a new queue flag: QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE.  This gets set by
default in blk_mq_init_queue for mq-enabled devices.  The effect of
the flag is to bypass the SG segment merging.  Instead, the
bio-&gt;bi_vcnt is used as the number of hardware segments.

With a device mapper target on top of a device with
QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE set, we can end up sending down more segments
than a driver is prepared to handle.  I ran into this when backporting
the virtio_blk mq support.  It triggerred this BUG_ON, in
virtio_queue_rq:

        BUG_ON(req-&gt;nr_phys_segments + 2 &gt; vblk-&gt;sg_elems);

The queue's max is set here:
        blk_queue_max_segments(q, vblk-&gt;sg_elems-2);

Basically, what happens is that a bio is built up for the dm device
(which does not have the QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE flag set) using
bio_add_page.  That path will call into __blk_recalc_rq_segments, so
what you end up with is bi_phys_segments being much smaller than bi_vcnt
(and bi_vcnt grows beyond the maximum sg elements).  Then, when the bio
is submitted, it gets cloned.  When the cloned bio is submitted, it will
end up in blk_recount_segments, here:

        if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE, &amp;q-&gt;queue_flags))
                bio-&gt;bi_phys_segments = bio-&gt;bi_vcnt;

and now we've set bio-&gt;bi_phys_segments to a number that is beyond what
was registered as queue_max_segments by the driver.

The right way to fix this is to propagate the queue flag up the stack.

The rules for propagating the flag are simple:
- if the flag is set for any underlying device, it must be set for the
  upper device
- consequently, if the flag is not set for any underlying device, it
  should not be set for the upper device.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
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