There are some duplicated codes to validate the block size in block drivers. This limitation actually comes from block layer, so this patch tries to add a new block layer helper for that. Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 12b9dbcc980e..805cd02d7914 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -235,6 +235,14 @@ struct request { void *end_io_data; }; +static inline int blk_validate_block_size(unsigned int bsize) +{ + if (bsize < 512 || bsize > PAGE_SIZE || !is_power_of_2(bsize)) + return -EINVAL; + + return 0; +} + static inline bool blk_op_is_passthrough(unsigned int op) { op &= REQ_OP_MASK; -- 2.11.0