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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] bsg: Remove bogus check against
	request_queue->max_sectors
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:37:58 +0100
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To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, open-osd mailing-list <osd-dev@open-osd.org>

On Thu, Mar 19 2009, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> 
> bsg submits REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC so the right check is max_hw_sectors.
> But I've removed this check because right after, bsg proceeds with
> calling blk_rq_map_user() which does all the right checks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
> ---
>  block/bsg.c |    3 ---
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/bsg.c b/block/bsg.c
> index 0ce8806..44a2a0f 100644
> --- a/block/bsg.c
> +++ b/block/bsg.c
> @@ -218,9 +218,6 @@ bsg_validate_sgv4_hdr(struct request_queue *q, struct sg_io_v4 *hdr, int *rw)
>  
>  	if (hdr->guard != 'Q')
>  		return -EINVAL;
> -	if (hdr->dout_xfer_len > (q->max_sectors << 9) ||
> -	    hdr->din_xfer_len > (q->max_sectors << 9))
> -		return -EIO;
>  
>  	switch (hdr->protocol) {
>  	case BSG_PROTOCOL_SCSI:

Applied

-- 
Jens Axboe