sd: Fix maximum I/O size for BLOCK_PC requests

Commit bcdb247 ("sd: Limit transfer length") clamped the maximum
size of an I/O request to the MAXIMUM TRANSFER LENGTH field in the BLOCK
LIMITS VPD. This had the unfortunate effect of also limiting the maximum
size of non-filesystem requests sent to the device through sg/bsg.

Avoid using blk_queue_max_hw_sectors() and set the max_sectors queue
limit directly.

Also update the comment in blk_limits_max_hw_sectors() to clarify that
max_hw_sectors defines the limit for the I/O controller only.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Brian King <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Brian King <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] # 3.17+
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>

Author: martinkpetersen

block/blk-settings.c

@@ -241,8 +241,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_bounce_limit);
  * Description:
  *    Enables a low level driver to set a hard upper limit,
  *    max_hw_sectors, on the size of requests.  max_hw_sectors is set by
- *    the device driver based upon the combined capabilities of I/O
- *    controller and storage device.
+ *    the device driver based upon the capabilities of the I/O
+ *    controller.
  *
  *    max_sectors is a soft limit imposed by the block layer for
  *    filesystem type requests.  This value can be overridden on a

drivers/scsi/sd.c

@@ -2770,9 +2770,9 @@ static int sd_revalidate_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
 	max_xfer = sdkp->max_xfer_blocks;
 	max_xfer <<= ilog2(sdp->sector_size) - 9;
 
-	max_xfer = min_not_zero(queue_max_hw_sectors(sdkp->disk->queue),
-				max_xfer);
-	blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(sdkp->disk->queue, max_xfer);
+	sdkp->disk->queue->limits.max_sectors =
+		min_not_zero(queue_max_hw_sectors(sdkp->disk->queue), max_xfer);
+
 	set_capacity(disk, sdkp->capacity);
 	sd_config_write_same(sdkp);
 	kfree(buffer);