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Date:	Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:46:31 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Roger Pau Monne" <roger.pau@...rix.com>
Cc:	<xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] xen-blkback: check the number of
 iovecs before allocating a bios

>>> On 21.06.13 at 12:56, Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@...rix.com> wrote:
> @@ -1236,7 +1236,8 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
>  				     seg[i].nsec << 9,
>  				     seg[i].offset) == 0)) {
>  
> -			bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nseg-i);
> +			int nr_iovecs = (nseg-i) > BIO_MAX_PAGES ? BIO_MAX_PAGES : (nseg-i);

I'm sure this results in a compiler warning (declaration after
statement).

And it surely would read much better if you used some form of
min() - the shorter line would at once allow you to properly
blank separate operands from operators.

Jan

> +			bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nr_iovecs);
>  			if (unlikely(bio == NULL))
>  				goto fail_put_bio;
>  


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