[PATCH v2 1/2] virtio: Reduce BUG if total_sg > virtqueue size to WARN.

From: Richard W.M. Jones
Date: Thu Aug 10 2017 - 12:57:37 EST


If using indirect descriptors, you can make the total_sg as large as
you want. If not, BUG is too serious because the function later
returns -ENOSPC.

Thanks Paolo Bonzini, Christoph Hellwig.

Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 5e1b548828e6..27cbc1eab868 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -296,7 +296,6 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add(struct virtqueue *_vq,
}
#endif

- BUG_ON(total_sg > vq->vring.num);
BUG_ON(total_sg == 0);

head = vq->free_head;
@@ -305,8 +304,10 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add(struct virtqueue *_vq,
* buffers, then go indirect. FIXME: tune this threshold */
if (vq->indirect && total_sg > 1 && vq->vq.num_free)
desc = alloc_indirect(_vq, total_sg, gfp);
- else
+ else {
desc = NULL;
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(total_sg > vq->vring.num && !vq->indirect);
+ }

if (desc) {
/* Use a single buffer which doesn't continue */
--
2.13.1