block: don't allow splitting of a REQ_NOWAIT bio

If we split a bio marked with REQ_NOWAIT, then we can trigger spurious
EAGAIN if constituent parts of that split bio end up failing request
allocations. Parts will complete just fine, but just a single failure
in one of the chained bios will yield an EAGAIN final result for the
parent bio.

Return EAGAIN early if we end up needing to split such a bio, which
allows for saner recovery handling.

Cc: [email protected] # 5.15+
Link: axboe/liburing#766
Reported-by: Michael Kelley <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

Author: axboe

block/blk-merge.c

@@ -309,6 +309,16 @@ static struct bio *bio_split_rw(struct bio *bio, const struct queue_limits *lim,
 	*segs = nsegs;
 	return NULL;
 split:
+	/*
+	 * We can't sanely support splitting for a REQ_NOWAIT bio. End it
+	 * with EAGAIN if splitting is required and return an error pointer.
+	 */
+	if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT) {
+		bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_AGAIN;
+		bio_endio(bio);
+		return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
+	}
+
 	*segs = nsegs;
 
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