Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 2 authors, 2019-08-21

Re: [PATCH V5 0/9] block: use right accessor to read nr_sects

From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Date: 2019-08-21 15:20:29
Also in: linux-bcache, linux-scsi, xen-devel

On 8/20/19 11:14 PM, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
In the blk-zoned, bcache, f2fs, target-pscsi, xen and blktrace
implementation block device->hd_part->number of sectors field is
accessed directly without any appropriate locking or accessor function.
There is an existing accessor function present in the in
include/linux/genhd.h which should be used to read the
bdev->hd_part->nr_sects.
For the entire series:

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
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