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SubjectRe: [PATCH 16/17] blk-map/bio: remove superflous @len parameter from blk_rq_map_user_iov()
Hello,

Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> I did not go to the bottom of this but how does that do not change
> user-space API. It would now fail in code that would work before.
>
> What if I want to try variable size commands, where I try the
> shorter first, then a longer one (or vis versa). I would setup
> memory mapping to the biggest command but issue a length that
> correspond to the encoded command inside the CDB.
>
> The bi->bi_size is not only mapping size it is also the command size
> I want to actually read/write.
>
> But I might read this wrong though

Please see below.

>> diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
>> index 73cfd91..fd538f8 100644
>> --- a/block/scsi_ioctl.c
>> +++ b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
>> @@ -288,7 +288,6 @@ static int sg_io(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
>>
>> if (hdr->iovec_count) {
>> const int size = sizeof(struct sg_iovec) * hdr->iovec_count;
>> - size_t iov_data_len;
>> struct iovec *iov;
>>
>> iov = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> @@ -304,15 +303,11 @@ static int sg_io(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
>> }
>>
>> /* SG_IO howto says that the shorter of the two wins */
>> - iov_data_len = iov_length(iov, hdr->iovec_count);
>> - if (hdr->dxfer_len < iov_data_len) {
>> - hdr->iovec_count = iov_shorten(iov, hdr->iovec_count,
>> - hdr->dxfer_len);
>> - iov_data_len = hdr->dxfer_len;
>> - }
>> + hdr->iovec_count = iov_shorten(iov, hdr->iovec_count,
>> + hdr->dxfer_len);
>>
>> ret = blk_rq_map_user_iov(q, rq, NULL, iov, hdr->iovec_count,
>> - iov_data_len, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + GFP_KERNEL);

blk_rq_map_user_iov() never had the shorter data len functionality.
It fails requests with -EINVAL if iov_length(iov) != dxfer_len, so a
patch in the previous patchset adds the above iov_shorten() call to
trim iov if dxfer_len is shorter. In this patch, it gets a bit
simpler as the length parameter isn't necessary.

Thanks.

--
tejun


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