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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Oct 11 2021 - 07:40:46 EST


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.