Limit max_pages for insane devices

Intel SSDs have a limit of 0xffff as queue_max_hw_sectors(q).  Such a
limit may make sense from a hardware pov, but it causes bio_alloc() to
return NULL.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c b/fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
index 9718c22f186..f99f5dcce54 100644
--- a/fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
+++ b/fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
@@ -97,8 +97,10 @@ static int __bdev_writeseg(struct super_block *sb, u64 ofs, pgoff_t index,
         unsigned int max_pages = queue_max_hw_sectors(q) >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 9);
         int i;
 
+        if (max_pages > BIO_MAX_PAGES)
+                max_pages = BIO_MAX_PAGES;
         bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOFS, max_pages);
-        BUG_ON(!bio); /* FIXME: handle this */
+        BUG_ON(!bio);
 
         for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
                 if (i >= max_pages) {
@@ -191,8 +193,10 @@ static int do_erase(struct super_block *sb, u64 ofs, pgoff_t index,
         unsigned int max_pages = queue_max_hw_sectors(q) >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 9);
         int i;
 
+        if (max_pages > BIO_MAX_PAGES)
+                max_pages = BIO_MAX_PAGES;
         bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOFS, max_pages);
-        BUG_ON(!bio); /* FIXME: handle this */
+        BUG_ON(!bio);
 
         for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
                 if (i >= max_pages) {