[PATCH] bio_copy_user() cleanups and fixes
blk_rq_map_user() is a bit of a hack currently, since it drops back to kmalloc() if bio_map_user() fails. This is unfortunate since it means we do no real segment or size checking (and the request segment counts contain crap, already found one bug in a scsi lld). It's also pretty nasty for > PAGE_SIZE requests, as we attempt to do higher order page allocations. Even worse still, ide-cd will drop back to PIO for non-sg/bio requests. All in all, very suboptimal. This patch adds bio_copy_user() which simply sets up a bio with kernel pages and copies data as needed for reads and writes. It also changes bio_map_user() to return an error pointer like bio_copy_user(), so we can return something sane to the user instead of always -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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