Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Nov 2015 15:17:15 +0100 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: Don't allow illegal discard requests |
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On Wed 04-11-15 03:30:19, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 10:18:41AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > Currently blkdev_issue_discard() doesn't check that submitted discard > > request matches granularity required by the underlying device. > > Submitting such requests to the device can have unexpected consequences > > (e.g. brd driver just discards more / less data depending on how exactly > > the request is aligned). So test that submitted discard request has the > > granularity required by the driver. > > How is this going to work with stacked drivers? I think brd needs to > be fixed to take care of the granularity itself, just like we did for > request based drivers.
So you mean that a stacked driver would split a discard request so that it is no longer of the required granularity? OK, makes sense. I'll add the check directly into brd itself.
Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> SUSE Labs, CR
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