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dm: fix failure when empty flush's bi_sector points beyond the device end
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:08:47 +0000 (12:08 +0100)
committerMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:50:42 +0000 (19:50 +0100)
commita612d24e850b28c16384cf071636034935447e43
tree0dab8433a57d2bd217cd7a26757d14a56159fb12
parenta6ee8422b4f2a591de010f4e60471060b13d4170
dm: fix failure when empty flush's bi_sector points beyond the device end

An empty flush bio can have arbitrary bi_sector. The commit 2b1c6d7a890a
introduced a regression that device mapper would fail an empty flush bio
with -EIO if the sector pointed beyond the end of the device.

The commit introduced an optimization, that optimization would pass
flushes to __split_and_process_bio and __split_and_process_bio is not
prepared to handle empty bios. Fix this bug by passing only non-empty
flushes to __split_and_process_bio - non-empty flushes must have valid
bi_sector. Empty bios will go through __send_empty_flush, as they did
before the optimization.

This problem can be reproduced by running the lvm2 test:
make check_local T=lvconvert-thin.sh LVM_TEST_PREFER_BRD=0

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Fixes: 2b1c6d7a890a ("dm: optimize REQ_PREFLUSH with data when using the linear target")
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
drivers/md/dm.c