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From: Fubo Chen <fubo.chen@gmail.com>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 15/22] tcm: Add FILEIO subsystem plugin
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:18:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimPh+SNroYoavomwVtQ5UHsr7Lsq_229Vkbc1CB@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283160144-6848-1-git-send-email-nab@linux-iscsi.org>

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
<nab@linux-iscsi.org> wrote:
> From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
>
> This patch adds the O_SYNC FILEIO subsystem plugin for accessing struct file
> using Linux/VFS struct file_operations.  It also includes WriteCache and FUA
> Write Emulation support to struct file using fs/sync.c/vfs_fsync_range()
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
>
> [ ... ]
>
> +static int fd_do_writev(struct fd_request *req, struct se_task *task)
> +{
> +       struct file *fd = req->fd_dev->fd_file;
> +       struct scatterlist *sg = task->task_sg;
> +       struct iovec iov[req->fd_sg_count];

Kernel stack size is 8 KB. On a 64-bit system struct iovec takes 16
bytes. What happens if req->fd_sg_count is large ? Kernel crash ?

Fubo.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-20 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-30  9:22 Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-09-20 16:18 ` Fubo Chen [this message]
2010-09-22  7:29   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger

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