On Wed, Oct 17 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > OK, it is fine, as long as the sglist is cleared initially. And I don't
> > think there's anyway around that, clearly I didn't think long enough
> > before including the memset() removal from Tomo.
>
> Ok, I think that one-liner fixes the real bug.
>
> But I think the rest of your changes are simply bad.
>
> The fix to block/ll_rw_block.c should likely be something like the
> appended instead:
>
> - remove the "memset()" you had added earlier. It's bogus. It cannot be
> the right thing. If the sg list wasn't initialized correctly much
> earlier, trying to initialize it late is pointless - it contains crap.
It's required to clear output members (like dma_len and so on), since
some of the IOMU code really wants that initialized.
> - the old code was fine, but let's initialize "sg" to NULL to make it
> clear that the initial value of sg is pointless, and only "next_sg"
> matters (since sg had better be assigned from that).
If you prefer the old next_sg approach to my alternative, that is fine
with me. But we do need the memset().
--
Jens Axboe
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
