[PATCH] block: support larger block pc requests

This patch modifies blk_rq_map/unmap_user() and the cdrom and scsi_ioctl.c
users so that it supports requests larger than bio by chaining them together.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index d91cfbf7ebc4..aa4d09bd4e71 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -560,10 +560,8 @@ struct bio *bio_copy_user(request_queue_t *q, unsigned long uaddr,
                         break;
                 }
 
-                if (bio_add_pc_page(q, bio, page, bytes, 0) < bytes) {
-                        ret = -EINVAL;
+                if (bio_add_pc_page(q, bio, page, bytes, 0) < bytes)
                         break;
-                }
 
                 len -= bytes;
         }
@@ -750,7 +748,6 @@ struct bio *bio_map_user_iov(request_queue_t *q, struct block_device *bdev,
                              int write_to_vm)
 {
         struct bio *bio;
-        int len = 0, i;
 
         bio = __bio_map_user_iov(q, bdev, iov, iov_count, write_to_vm);
 
@@ -765,18 +762,7 @@ struct bio *bio_map_user_iov(request_queue_t *q, struct block_device *bdev,
          */
         bio_get(bio);
 
-        for (i = 0; i < iov_count; i++)
-                len += iov[i].iov_len;
-
-        if (bio->bi_size == len)
-                return bio;
-
-        /*
-         * don't support partial mappings
-         */
-        bio_endio(bio, bio->bi_size, 0);
-        bio_unmap_user(bio);
-        return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+        return bio;
 }
 
 static void __bio_unmap_user(struct bio *bio)