Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: Range check cpu in blk_cpu_to_group
  scatterlist: prevent invalid free when alloc fails
  writeback: Fix lost wake-up shutting down writeback thread
  writeback: do not lose wakeup events when forking bdi threads
  cciss: fix reporting of max queue depth since init
  block: switch s390 tape_block and mg_disk to elevator_change()
  block: add function call to switch the IO scheduler from a driver
  fs/bio-integrity.c: return -ENOMEM on kmalloc failure
  bio-integrity.c: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
  BLOCK: fix bio.bi_rw handling
  block: put dev->kobj in blk_register_queue fail path
  cciss: handle allocation failure
  cfq-iosched: Documentation help for new tunables
  cfq-iosched: blktrace print per slice sector stats
  cfq-iosched: Implement tunable group_idle
  cfq-iosched: Do group share accounting in IOPS when slice_idle=0
  cfq-iosched: Do not idle if slice_idle=0
  cciss: disable doorbell reset on reset_devices
  blkio: Fix return code for mkdir calls

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
index a5ec42868f99..4ceb05d772ae 100644
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c
+++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -248,8 +248,18 @@ int __sg_alloc_table(struct sg_table *table, unsigned int nents,
 		left -= sg_size;
 
 		sg = alloc_fn(alloc_size, gfp_mask);
-		if (unlikely(!sg))
-			return -ENOMEM;
+		if (unlikely(!sg)) {
+			/*
+			 * Adjust entry count to reflect that the last
+			 * entry of the previous table won't be used for
+			 * linkage.  Without this, sg_kfree() may get
+			 * confused.
+			 */
+			if (prv)
+				table->nents = ++table->orig_nents;
+
+ 			return -ENOMEM;
+		}
 
 		sg_init_table(sg, alloc_size);
 		table->nents = table->orig_nents += sg_size;