block: Add a helper to validate the block size
authorXie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:40:12 +0000 (22:40 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 21 Nov 2021 12:44:13 +0000 (13:44 +0100)
commit1f124a6611910f8c875f7ff3ac84727c41a4ab72
tree0ba98a18595820ee94a9eab5554c24d519a62e61
parent8d0956438eecfafbefb7cd15b7773087549b38d4
block: Add a helper to validate the block size

commit 570b1cac477643cbf01a45fa5d018430a1fddbce upstream.

There are some duplicated codes to validate the block
size in block drivers. This limitation actually comes
from block layer, so this patch tries to add a new block
layer helper for that.

Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026144015.188-2-xieyongji@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/blkdev.h