Re: Maybe a bug in libata-core

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Hello,

On 08/24/2010 12:41 AM, Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner wrote:
> As far as I know my code I thought I did send enough data.  Maybe I'm
> misunderstanding something: I valloc'ated block_count*logical_block_size
> bytes, filled them with data and presented this buffer to the
> sg_io_hdr_t structure by setting dxfer_len to the length of the buffer,
> setting dxferp to a pointer to the buffer and setting the
> dxfer_direction to SG_DXFER_TO_DEV.
> 
> The only thing coming to my mind would be overflow of dxfer_len, but as
> this is a unsigned int - wouldn't it be 32 bits wide? (and by that
> accepting f.e. 64k*512 bytes = 33 554 432 bytes (32M, needing 25 bits))
> 
> Any other suggestions, or do I have to present the code?

Yeah, posting a simple test case would be the best way to proceed
here.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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