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[2/2] brd: warn on un-aligned buffer

Message ID 20191204113115.17818-3-ming.lei@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series brd: remove max_hw_sectors limit and warn on un-aligned buffer | expand

Commit Message

Ming Lei Dec. 4, 2019, 11:31 a.m. UTC
Queue dma alignment limit requires users(fs, target, ...) of block layer
to pass aligned buffer.

So far brd doesn't support un-aligned buffer, even though it is easy
to support it.

However, given brd is often used for debug purpose, and there are other
drivers which can't support un-aligned buffer too.

So add warning so that brd users know what to fix.

Reported-by: Stephen Rust <srust@blockbridge.com>
Cc: Stephen Rust <srust@blockbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/block/brd.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
index c2e5b2ad88bc..a8730cc4db10 100644
--- a/drivers/block/brd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
@@ -297,6 +297,10 @@  static blk_qc_t brd_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
 		unsigned int len = bvec.bv_len;
 		int err;
 
+		/* Don't support un-aligned buffer */
+		WARN_ON_ONCE((bvec.bv_offset & (SECTOR_SIZE - 1)) ||
+				(len & (SECTOR_SIZE - 1)));
+
 		err = brd_do_bvec(brd, bvec.bv_page, len, bvec.bv_offset,
 				  bio_op(bio), sector);
 		if (err)