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SubjectRe: [PATCH] IDE: Do not call bh_phys() on buffers with invalid b_page.
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On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 16:22, Jens Axboe wrote:

> Ehm no, if b_data is < PAGE_SIZE, it's probably an offset and not a
> valid address. So it should be exactly where it is -- for b_page, it's
> _not_ buggy for b_data to be < PAGE_SIZE. That's expected. Submitter
> would have to be buggy for it to trigger, though, so you can just remove
> it if you want.

Ah, I see what you wanted to check now :) Ok, I won't remove it, though
it would still make sense to extend the test to PAGE_OFFSET I beleive,
any b_data < PAGE_OFFSET is wrong.

Anyway, let's leave 2.4 as it is now.

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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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