dm: pass NULL bdev to bio_alloc_clone
Most DM targets will remap the clone bio passed to their ->map function using bio_set_bdev(). So this change to pass NULL bdev to bio_alloc_clone avoids clone-time work that sets up resources for a bdev association that will not be used in practice (e.g. clone issued to underlying device will not use DM device's blk-cgroups resources). But clone->bi_bdev is still initialized following bio_alloc_clone to preserve DM target expectations that clone->bi_bdev will be set. Follow-up work is needed to audit DM targets to remove accesses to a clone->bi_bdev that the target didn't initialize with bio_set_dev(). Depends-on: 7ecc56c6 ("block: allow passing a NULL bdev to bio_alloc_clone/bio_init_clone") Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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