iblock: fix handling of large requests
Requesting to many bvecs upsets bio_alloc_bioset, so limit the number we ask
for to the amount it can handle.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c b/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c
index d43d5eb..8572eae 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c
@@ -488,6 +488,13 @@
struct iblock_req *ib_req = IBLOCK_REQ(task);
struct bio *bio;
+ /*
+ * Only allocate as many vector entries as the bio code allows us to,
+ * we'll loop later on until we have handled the whole request.
+ */
+ if (sg_num > BIO_MAX_PAGES)
+ sg_num = BIO_MAX_PAGES;
+
bio = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOIO, sg_num, ib_dev->ibd_bio_set);
if (!bio) {
pr_err("Unable to allocate memory for bio\n");