[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "Fix bug in blk_rq_merge_ok" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Apr 9 08:58:10 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Fix bug in blk_rq_merge_ok

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 4eb6e988a6ef02fe8708d665b954a89250f97097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang at memblaze.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 01:04:54 -0400
Subject: Fix bug in blk_rq_merge_ok

commit 7ee8e4f3983c4ff700958a6099c8fd212ea67b94 upstream.

Use the right array index to reference the last
element of rq->biotail->bi_io_vec[]

Signed-off-by: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang at memblaze.com>
Reviewed-by: Chong Yuan <chong.yuan at memblaze.com>
Fixes: 66cb45aa41315 ("block: add support for limiting gaps in SG lists")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 block/blk-merge.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
index 54535831f1e1..25db382fd2c2 100644
--- a/block/blk-merge.c
+++ b/block/blk-merge.c
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ bool blk_rq_merge_ok(struct request *rq, struct bio *bio)
 	if (q->queue_flags & (1 << QUEUE_FLAG_SG_GAPS)) {
 		struct bio_vec *bprev;

-		bprev = &rq->biotail->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_vcnt - 1];
+		bprev = &rq->biotail->bi_io_vec[rq->biotail->bi_vcnt - 1];
 		if (bvec_gap_to_prev(bprev, bio->bi_io_vec[0].bv_offset))
 			return false;
 	}




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