From: Tejun Heo Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:10:24 +0000 (+0900) Subject: block: fix SG_IO vector request data length handling X-Git-Tag: v2.6.30-rc4~65^2~14 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=25636e282fe95508cae96bb27f86407aef935817;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-stable.git block: fix SG_IO vector request data length handling Impact: fix SG_IO behavior such that it matches the documentation SG_IO howto says that if ->dxfer_len and sum of iovec disagress, the shorter one wins. However, the current implementation returns -EINVAL for such cases. Trim iovc if it's longer than ->dxfer_len. This patch uses iov_*() helpers which take struct iovec * by casting struct sg_iovec * to it. sg_iovec is always identical to iovec and this will be further cleaned up with later patches. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c index 84b7f87..82a0ca2 100644 --- a/block/scsi_ioctl.c +++ b/block/scsi_ioctl.c @@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ static int sg_io(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk, if (hdr->iovec_count) { const int size = sizeof(struct sg_iovec) * hdr->iovec_count; + size_t iov_data_len; struct sg_iovec *iov; iov = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -304,8 +305,18 @@ static int sg_io(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk, goto out; } + /* SG_IO howto says that the shorter of the two wins */ + iov_data_len = iov_length((struct iovec *)iov, + hdr->iovec_count); + if (hdr->dxfer_len < iov_data_len) { + hdr->iovec_count = iov_shorten((struct iovec *)iov, + hdr->iovec_count, + hdr->dxfer_len); + iov_data_len = hdr->dxfer_len; + } + ret = blk_rq_map_user_iov(q, rq, NULL, iov, hdr->iovec_count, - hdr->dxfer_len, GFP_KERNEL); + iov_data_len, GFP_KERNEL); kfree(iov); } else if (hdr->dxfer_len) ret = blk_rq_map_user(q, rq, NULL, hdr->dxferp, hdr->dxfer_len,