Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] virtio_blk: Don't bother validating blocksize

[Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>]

On 7/8/24 18:16, John Garry wrote:
> The block queue limits validation does this for us now.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 11 +----------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> index f11b0c3b2625..e3147a611151 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> @@ -1289,18 +1289,9 @@ static int virtblk_read_limits(struct virtio_blk *vblk,
>  	lim->max_segment_size = max_size;
>  
>  	/* Host can optionally specify the block size of the device */
> -	err = virtio_cread_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE,
> +	virtio_cread_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE,
>  				   struct virtio_blk_config, blk_size,
>  				   &lim->logical_block_size);

I really wonder why this does not check that the VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE feature
exists... But that is not the fault of this patch :)

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>

> -	if (!err) {
> -		err = blk_validate_block_size(lim->logical_block_size);
> -		if (err) {
> -			dev_err(&vdev->dev,
> -				"virtio_blk: invalid block size: 0x%x\n",
> -				lim->logical_block_size);
> -			return err;
> -		}
> -	}
>  
>  	/* Use topology information if available */
>  	err = virtio_cread_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_TOPOLOGY,

-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research