linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen/blkback: Check for insane amounts of request on the ring.

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Message-Id: <51B0484302000078000DBC0D@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
Date:	Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:28:51 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc:	<david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <roger.pau@...rix.com>,
	"xen-devel" <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/blkback: Check for insane amounts of request
 on the ring.

>>> On 05.06.13 at 19:35, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> wrote:
>> > Looking at the code, one would expect that the existing check
>> 
>> The "expect ..." here doesn't really seem to have a proper
>> termination later in the sentence (or I'm having problems parsing
>> the whole construct), so if I didn't know what the patch is about
>> I would have a hard time following.
> 
> Oh gosh, that is very badly worded.
> 
> .. snip..
> 
> I took the advice and altered the patch and hopefully fixed
> the commit description to make more sense:

Thanks, this reads quite a bit better.

Jan

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