Re: [PATCH] rsxx: fix discard with length smaller than hw blksize

[Jens Axboe]

On 2014-06-30 11:31, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> When the discard length is not a multiple of RSXX_HW_BLK_SIZE, the
> discard code will get into an infinite loop, even discarding data it is
> not supposed to. This will also hang the system.
>
> This can be reproduced by doing an ioctl BLKDISCARD to /dev/rsxx0 with
> range from 0 to 1024.

That is a bug that should be fixed in the discard code, not worked 
around in the driver.


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Jens Axboe

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