Re: [PATCH] blk-mq: avoid potential infinite loop in __blk_mq_alloc_request

[Liu Song]

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 04:15:49PM +0800, Liu Song wrote:
> > It is a reasonable approach to prevent abnormal alloc from going down,
> > but this is a very rare exception after all, and above modification is
> > checked
> > every alloc request, which seems to be a bit excessive overhead.
> Every allocation of a passthrough requests.  Which isn't really the
> normal fast path.

Hi,

It is true that there is no possibility of triggering an infinite loop 
in the current code,

but the necessary guard code should also exist without adding extra 
overhead.


Thanks