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We ran into a problem with a mpt3sas based controller, where we would see random (and hard to reproduce) file corruption). The issue seemed specific to this controller, but wasn't specific to the file system. After a lot of debugging, we find out that it's caused by segments spanning a 4G memory boundary. This shouldn't happen, as the default setting for segment boundary masks is 4G. Turns out there are two issues in get_max_segment_size(): 1) The default segment boundary mask is bypassed 2) The segment start address isn't taken into account when checking segment boundary limit Fix these two issues by removing the bypass of the segment boundary check even if the mask is set to the default value, and taking into account the actual start address of the request when checking if a segment needs splitting. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.1+ Reviewed-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Fixes: dcebd755926b ("block: use bio_for_each_bvec() to compute multi-page bvec count") Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Dropped const on the page pointer, ppc page_to_phys() doesn't mark the page as const... Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.