[dm-devel] [PATCH v3 01/26] block: Fix a buffer overrun in bio_integrity_split()

Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen at oracle.com
Tue Oct 2 22:30:28 UTC 2012


>>>>> "Kent" == Kent Overstreet <koverstreet at google.com> writes:

>> > + *bp->bip1.bip_vec = bip->bip_vec[0];
>> > + *bp->bip2.bip_vec = bip->bip_vec[0];
>> 
>> I think this is horrible.

Yep.


>> Why not introduce bvec pointer in bip (like bio), to cover the case
>> when bvec are not inline.

Kent> That's... exactly what the next patch in the series does.

I'm perfectly ok with a patch that introduces the pointer and fixes the
bio_pair case. As long as that's all it does.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering




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