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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 04:09:26PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 10/08/2017 23:41, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>> Then we probably should fail probe if vq size is too small.
> >> What does this mean?
> > 
> > We must prevent driver from submitting s/g lists > vq size to device.
> 
> What is the rationale for the limit?

So the host knows what it needs to support.

>  It makes no sense if indirect
> descriptors are available, especially because...
> 
> > Either tell linux to avoid s/g lists that are too long, or
> > simply fail request if this happens, or refuse to attach driver to device.
> > 
> > Later option would look something like this within probe:
> > 
> >         for (i = VIRTIO_SCSI_VQ_BASE; i < num_vqs; i++)
> > 		if (vqs[i]->num < MAX_SG_USED_BY_LINUX)
> > 			goto err;
> > 
> > 
> > I don't know what's MAX_SG_USED_BY_LINUX though.
> > 
> 
> ... both virtio-blk and virtio-scsi transmit their own value for the
> maximum sg list size (max_seg in virtio-scsi, seg_max in virtio-blk).
> 
> Paolo

No other device has it, and it seemed like a good idea to
limit it generally at the time.

we can fix the spec to relax the requirement for blk and scsi -
want to submit a proposal? Alternatively, add a generic field
for that.

For a quick fix, make sure vq size is >= max sg.

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