From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bart Van Assche Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] IB/srp: Add memory descriptor array pointer range checking Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 08:51:46 -0700 Message-ID: <55D0B192.90806@sandisk.com> References: <55BBF4B8.2050700@sandisk.com> <20150803152420.GA24193@infradead.org> <55BFB40F.8000500@sandisk.com> <20150804180933.GB5038@obsidianresearch.com> <1438756876.5698.2.camel@haswell.thedillows.org> <20150805195122.GA31595@obsidianresearch.com> <55C2840C.5050301@sandisk.com> <55C2912A.50709@sandisk.com> <20150806001006.GD2483@obsidianresearch.com> <55C2A7FE.7020904@sandisk.com> <20150806043642.GA14153@obsidianresearch.com> <55C93C61.9010508@sandisk.com> <55C93CBF.1060606@sandisk.com> <55D06C9D.7030608@dev.mellanox.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <55D06C9D.7030608-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Sagi Grimberg , Jason Gunthorpe Cc: "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 08/16/15 03:57, Sagi Grimberg wrote: > On 8/11/2015 3:07 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> Although most paths through which a request is submitted check >> block layer parameters like the max_segments limit, these are >> not checked when an SG_IO or direct I/O request is submitted. > > Why not check that there instead? The scope of this patch series is to avoid that the SRP initiator needs to create a global memory key. Changing the behavior of SG_IO and/or direct I/O falls outside the scope of this patch series. Bart. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html