Bart,
On 2/16/17 00:10, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 11:12 +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> + resid = round_up(resid, sector_size);
>> + if (resid < good_bytes)
>> + good_bytes -= resid;
>> + else
>> + good_bytes = 0;
>> + scsi_set_resid(SCpnt, resid);
>
> Hello Damien,
>
> If the Data-Out buffer is smaller than a single logical block, can the above
> code cause resid to exceed the Data-Out buffer size? I think we should avoid
> to convert a residual overflow into a residual underflow. Additionally, will
> round_up() work correctly if resid is negative (residual underflow)? How
> about using the following (untested) code instead of the above?
>
> if (resid > 0) {
> resid = min(good_bytes, round_up(resid, sector_size));
> good_bytes -= resid;
> scsi_set_resid(SCpnt, resid);
> }
Indeed, that would be more solid and cover all possible weird values of
resid. I will resend a v5.
Thanks.
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