On 07/04/2014 09:55 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Some callers use larger qiovs than nb_sectors for their read requests. This is
> bad because raw-posix uses nb_sectors to allocate a bounce buffer and then
> copies the whole iov over.
> 
> This series fixes some more cases (mirroring was already fixed earlier this
> week) and adds assertions to catch any other offenders.
Is the intent to include this in 2.1?

> 
> Kevin Wolf (4):
>   block: Make qiov match the request size until EOF
>   qcow2: Make qiov match request size until backing file EOF
>   qed: Make qiov match request size until backing file EOF
>   block: Assert qiov length matches request length
> 
>  block.c           | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  block/qcow2.c     | 11 ++++++++++-
>  block/qed.c       | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  block/qed.h       |  1 +
>  block/raw-posix.c | 15 +++++++++++----
>  5 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 

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