On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 01:40:02AM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote: > From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > linux-v3.8-rc1 and later support for plug for blkdev_issue_discard with > commit 0cfbcafcae8b7364b5fa96c2b26ccde7a3a296a9 > (block: add plug for blkdev_issue_discard ) > > For example, > 1) DISCARD rq-1 with size size 4GB > 2) DISCARD rq-2 with size size 1GB > > If these 2 discard requests get merged, final request size will be 5GB. > > In this case, request's __data_len field may overflow as it can store > max 4GB(unsigned int). Complete NACK - like James said, this fix is nonsensical. This should be fixed by just checking for overflow before merging requests, not with weird hacks in the drivers. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
