Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 8 authors, 2017-07-24

Re: [PATCH] block: note about cloned bios and bio_for_each_segment_all

From: David Sterba <hidden>
Date: 2017-07-15 00:28:22

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 08:22:31AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
 /*
  * drivers should _never_ use the all version - the bio may have been split
- * before it got to the driver and the driver won't own all of it
+ * before it got to the driver and the driver won't own all of it.
+ *
+ * Don't use this on cloned bio's.
  */
 #define bio_for_each_segment_all(bvl, bio, i)				\
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(bio_flagged(bio, BIO_CLONED));			\
 	for (i = 0, bvl = (bio)->bi_io_vec; i < (bio)->bi_vcnt; i++, bvl++)
This needs a multiline statement protection, otherwise

if (...)
	bio_for_each_segment_all(...) {
		...
	}

would expand to

if (...)
	WARN_ON_ONCE(...);

bio_for_each_segment_all(...) { ... }

However "do { ... } while(0)" cannot be used here, so WARN_ON_ONCE could
be moved to the initialization block of for:

#define bio_for_each_segment_all(bvl, bio, i)				\
	for (WARN_ON_ONCE(bio_flagged(bio, BIO_CLONED)),		\
	     i = 0, bvl = (bio)->bi_io_vec; i < (bio)->bi_vcnt; i++, bvl++)

I haven't found any code using the exact broken pattern. So this does
not explain the crash Liu Bo reports.
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