From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754677AbdCIAmh (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2017 19:42:37 -0500 Received: from aserp1050.oracle.com ([141.146.126.70]:45600 "EHLO aserp1050.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752211AbdCIAme (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2017 19:42:34 -0500 To: Kashyap Desai Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: out of range LBA using sg_raw From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <20170308151113.GB27450@infradead.org> <07493b3c3da0b19a9fa96899cad640f3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 19:40:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <07493b3c3da0b19a9fa96899cad640f3@mail.gmail.com> (Kashyap Desai's message of "Wed, 8 Mar 2017 22:19:58 +0530") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: aserp1040.oracle.com [141.146.126.69] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Kashyap" == Kashyap Desai writes: Kashyap, Kashyap> Agree on this point. I am planning to study all possible such Kashyap> sanity in driver for VD and not trying to fix one specific Kashyap> scenario as described here. Do you think fix in this area is Kashyap> good for kernel-stable as well OR just keep in linux-next as it Kashyap> is not so severe considering real time exposure ? Trying to Kashyap> understand priority and severity of this issue. Since you're presumably only handling reads and writes in the fast path, I assume the sanity checking will be fairly simple and thus a candidate for stable. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering