lib/scatterlist: Fix chaining support in sgl_alloc_order()
authorBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 19:00:54 +0000 (11:00 -0800)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 19:31:03 +0000 (12:31 -0700)
commit8c7a8d1c4b9c30a2be3b31a2e6af1cefd45574eb
tree0a539f04d39495479b9a4965ace69aad45c01cf9
parent9b9c63f71bddf3dc897aaaa46c0593abc3e09932
lib/scatterlist: Fix chaining support in sgl_alloc_order()

This patch avoids that workloads with large block sizes (megabytes)
can trigger the following call stack with the ib_srpt driver (that
driver is the only driver that chains scatterlists allocated by
sgl_alloc_order()):

BUG: Bad page state in process kworker/0:1H  pfn:2423a78
page:fffffb03d08e9e00 count:-3 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
flags: 0x57ffffc0000000()
raw: 0057ffffc0000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 fffffffdffffffff
raw: dead000000000100 dead000000000200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero _count
CPU: 0 PID: 733 Comm: kworker/0:1H Tainted: G          I      4.15.0-rc7.bart+ #1
Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL380 G7, BIOS P67 08/16/2015
Workqueue: ib-comp-wq ib_cq_poll_work [ib_core]
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x5c/0x83
 bad_page+0xf5/0x10f
 get_page_from_freelist+0xa46/0x11b0
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x103/0x290
 sgl_alloc_order+0x101/0x180
 target_alloc_sgl+0x2c/0x40 [target_core_mod]
 srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs+0x173/0x2d0 [ib_srpt]
 srpt_handle_new_iu+0x61e/0x7f0 [ib_srpt]
 __ib_process_cq+0x55/0xa0 [ib_core]
 ib_cq_poll_work+0x1b/0x60 [ib_core]
 process_one_work+0x141/0x340
 worker_thread+0x47/0x3e0
 kthread+0xf5/0x130
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Fixes: e80a0af4759a ("lib/scatterlist: Introduce sgl_alloc() and sgl_free()")
Reported-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Cc: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
include/linux/scatterlist.h
lib/scatterlist.c