Re: [PATCH 05/19] cdrom: Check private request size before attaching to a queue

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On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 03:50:42PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 08:08 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:43:13AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > Since the cdrom driver only supports request queues for which
> > > struct scsi_request is the first member of their private request
> > > data, refuse to register block layer queues for which this is
> > > not the case.
> > 
> > Hmm.  I think we have a deeper issue there.  The cdrom layer usually
> > sends packets commands through the cdrom ops ->generic_packet
> > method, but one function (cdrom_read_cdda_bpc) seems to directly
> > send a scsi passthrough request.  It is only used if the cdda_method
> > is not CDDA_OLD, which is set if the cdrom_device_info structure
> > does not have a gendisk pointer hanging off it.  It seems like
> > the legacy cdrom drivers fall into that category and would be
> > broken by this change.
> 
> Hello Christoph,
> 
> How about moving the check into cdrom_read_cdda_bpc()? As far as I can see
> that function is only called if a CDROMREADAUDIO ioctl is submitted. Although
> Documentation/cdrom/cdrom-standard.tex mentions that that ioctl is unsupported
> applications like cdparanoia use it.

I guess that's fine for now.  In the long run we can probably replace
the current users of generic_packet method with direct scsi passthrough
requests, but that can be left for later.



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