Re: [PATCH v5] virtio-blk: Add validation for block size in config space

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On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 01:40:41PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:42:43AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Stefan also pointed out this duplicates the logic from 
> > 
> >         if (blksize < 512 || blksize > PAGE_SIZE || !is_power_of_2(blksize))
> >                 return -EINVAL;
> > 
> > 
> > and a bunch of other places.
> > 
> > 
> > Would it be acceptable for blk layer to validate the input
> > instead of having each driver do it's own thing?
> > Maybe inside blk_queue_logical_block_size?
> 
> I'm pretty sure we want down that before.  Let's just add a helper
> just for that check for now as part of this series.  Actually validating
> in in blk_queue_logical_block_size seems like a good idea, but returning
> errors from that has a long tail.

Xie Yongji, I think I will revert this patch for now - can you
please work out adding that helper and using it in virtio?

Thanks,

-- 
MST

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