From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com, Mike Snitzer <msnitzer@redhat.com>,
Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm-crypt: Reject sector_size feature if device length is not aligned to it
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 13:05:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171003120508.GA9979@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1710021034380.2597@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:43:56AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Here I send a patch that checks invalid limits when the table is loaded
> and aborts the table load ioctl with an error.
The code does not already do this because it needs to avoid unnecessary
failures if any characteristics of the devices underneath change after
the 'load' but before the 'resume' (as can happen, for example, when a
tree of devices gets updated by performing all the loads before all the
resumes).
Alasdair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-03 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-13 13:45 [PATCH] dm-crypt: Reject sector_size feature if device length is not aligned to it Milan Broz
2017-09-30 18:31 ` Milan Broz
2017-10-02 14:43 ` Mikulas Patocka
2017-10-03 6:27 ` Milan Broz
2017-10-03 12:05 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2017-10-03 18:08 ` Mike Snitzer
2017-10-03 19:09 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2017-10-03 20:08 ` Mikulas Patocka
2017-10-03 20:33 ` Milan Broz
2017-10-03 21:18 ` Mike Snitzer
2017-10-04 6:45 ` Milan Broz
2017-10-04 15:05 ` Mike Snitzer
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