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block: don't allow splitting of a REQ_NOWAIT bio
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commit 9cea62b upstream.

If we split a bio marked with REQ_NOWAIT, then we can trigger spurious
EAGAIN if constituent parts of that split bio end up failing request
allocations. Parts will complete just fine, but just a single failure
in one of the chained bios will yield an EAGAIN final result for the
parent bio.

Return EAGAIN early if we end up needing to split such a bio, which
allows for saner recovery handling.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15+
Link: axboe/liburing#766
Reported-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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axboe authored and gregkh committed Jan 12, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -279,6 +279,16 @@ static struct bio *blk_bio_segment_split(struct request_queue *q,
*segs = nsegs;
return NULL;
split:
/*
* We can't sanely support splitting for a REQ_NOWAIT bio. End it
* with EAGAIN if splitting is required and return an error pointer.
*/
if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT) {
bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_AGAIN;
bio_endio(bio);
return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
}

*segs = nsegs;

/*
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