Re: Problems with new block device size reporting

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On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 17:58 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> [ Cc'ing myself because I'm not subscribed to linux-scsi ]
> 
> Hi James-
> 
> I found two problems in 2.6.27:
> 
> 1.  If CONFIG_LBD is not set on 32-bit platforms, the computation  
> added in sd_read_capacity() by commit 7404ad3b computes sz  
> incorrectly.  On my system (a Fedora 9 VMware guest with an 8GB disk),  
> sz is computed as zero.
> 
> 2.  The new string helper string_get_size() added by commit 3c9f3681  
> goes into an infinite loop if it is passed a "size" of zero.  the "for  
> (j=0;" loop never terminates because 0*10 is always less than 1000.

Actually, both reported with patches:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=122400928411030
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=122400928511033

James


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