Re: [PATCH 12/23] sd: handle REQ_UNMAP

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"hch@xxxxxx" <hch@xxxxxx> writes:

Christoph,

> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 04:48:55PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> >  	if (sdp->no_write_same)
>> >  		return BLKPREP_INVALID;
>> >  	if (sdkp->ws16 || sector > 0xffffffff || nr_sectors > 0xffff)
>> 
>> Users can change the provisioning mode from user space from SD_LBP_WS16 into
>> SD_LBP_WS10 so I'm not sure it's safe to skip the (sdkp->ws16 || sector >
>> 0xffffffff || nr_sectors > 0xffff) check if REQ_UNMAP is set.
>
> They can, and if the device has too many sectors that will already cause
> discard to fail,

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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