Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] bsg: fix kernel panic resulting from missing allocation of a reply-buffer
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Aug 11 2017 - 11:36:02 EST
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 05:32:03PM +0200, Benjamin Block wrote:
> So when the bsg interface is used with something different than the
> bsg-lib request queue?
Yes.
> I haven't actually thought about that (presuming
> the bsg-lib queue was the only one being used). Fair enough, I haven't
> completely read that code now, but that seems bad then, to reassign a
> space allocated in someone else's request queue.
>
> That still leaves open that we now over-allocate space in bsg-lib, or?
Which space do we over-allocate?
> My diff tells that this was the same patch as before.
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