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Commit 0f799603 authored by Mike Snitzer's avatar Mike Snitzer Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard



Due to the recently identified overflow in read_capacity_16() it was
possible for max_discard_sectors to be zero but still have discards
enabled on the associated device's queue.

Eliminate the possibility for blkdev_issue_discard to infinitely loop.

Interestingly this issue wasn't identified until a device, whose
discard_granularity was 0 due to read_capacity_16 overflow, was consumed
by blk_stack_limits() to construct limits for a higher-level DM
multipath device.  The multipath device's resulting limits never had the
discard limits stacked because blk_stack_limits() will only do so if
the bottom device's discard_granularity != 0.  This resulted in the
multipath device's limits.max_discard_sectors being 0.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
parent 390192b3
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