Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 May 2009 10:02:45 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/14] ide-tape: fix potential fs requests bug |
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On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:45:21AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > ide-tape had a potential bug for fs requests when preparing the command > packet: it was writing the transfer length as a number of fixed blocks. > However, the block layer implies 512 byte blocks and ide-tape can have > other block sizes so account for that too. > > ide-floppy does this calculation properly with the block size factor > (floppy->bs_factor). > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> > --- > drivers/ide/ide-tape.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c > index e166045..fc79cf4 100644 > --- a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c > +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c > @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ static void ide_tape_create_rw_cmd(idetape_tape_t *tape, > struct ide_atapi_pc *pc, struct request *rq, > u8 opcode) > { > - unsigned int length = blk_rq_sectors(rq); > + unsigned int length = blk_rq_sectors(rq) / (tape->blk_size >> 9);
If tape->blk_size equals 256 or less then we get a divide-by-zero.
Sam
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