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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>
Cc: Feng Li <lifeng1519@gmail.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Li Feng <fengli@smartx.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"open list:BLOCK LAYER" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] blk: avoid divide-by-zero with zero granularity
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:46:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1pn2a59u3.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM5PR0401MB3591FDAC44CD5665D6CEBDC39BAA0@DM5PR0401MB3591.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> (Johannes Thumshirn's message of "Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:36:01 +0000")


Johannes,

>> I use the nvme-tcp as the host, the target is spdk nvme-tcp target,
>> and set a wrong block size(i.g. bs=8), then the host prints this oops:
>
> I think the better fix here is to reject devices which report a block size
> small than a sector.

Yep, Linux doesn't support logical block sizes < 512 bytes.

Also, the NVMe spec states:

	"A value smaller than 9 (i.e., 512 bytes) is not supported."

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-12 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-12 15:29 [PATCH] blk: avoid divide-by-zero with zero granularity Li Feng
2021-01-12 15:34 ` Feng Li
2021-01-12 15:55 ` [PATCH v2] " Li Feng
2021-01-12 17:10   ` Martin K. Petersen
2021-01-12 17:27     ` Feng Li
2021-01-12 17:36       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-01-12 17:46         ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2021-01-13  2:42           ` Li Feng
2021-01-12 18:42 ` [PATCH] " kernel test robot
2021-01-12 21:49 ` kernel test robot
2021-01-12 22:57 ` kernel test robot

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