Re: [RFC PATCH] bio-integrity: add "bip_max_vcnt" into struct bio_integrity_payload

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Sun Jun 29 2014 - 19:16:20 EST


>>>>> "Gu" == Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[Sorry about the delay. I'm on vacation right now.]

Gu> But it seems that bip_integrity_vecs() will return the wrong number
Gu> if the bio is not based on any bio_set for some reason(bio->bi_pool
Gu> == NULL), because in that case, the bip_inline_vecs[0] is malloced
Gu> directly. So here we add the bip_max_vcnt to record the count of
Gu> vector slots, and cleanup the function bip_integrity_vecs().

I'm in agreement with your fix.

However, I'm still not sure what the use case is for bios without an
associated bioset. I do not see any callers that pass in a NULL bioset.

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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