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Commit 44ec9542 authored by Alan Stern's avatar Alan Stern Committed by James Bottomley
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[SCSI] sg: cap reserved_size values at max_sectors


This patch (as857) modifies the SG_GET_RESERVED_SIZE and
SG_SET_RESERVED_SIZE ioctls in the sg driver, capping the values at
the device's request_queue's max_sectors value.  This will permit
cdrecord to obtain a legal value for the maximum transfer length,
fixing Bugzilla #7026.

The patch also caps the initial reserved_size value.  There's no
reason to have a reserved buffer larger than max_sectors, since it
would be impossible to use the extra space.

The corresponding ioctls in the block layer are modified similarly,
and the initial value for the reserved_size is set as large as
possible.  This will effectively make it default to max_sectors.
Note that the actual value is meaningless anyway, since block devices
don't have a reserved buffer.

Finally, the BLKSECTGET ioctl is added to sg, so that there will be a
uniform way for users to determine the actual max_sectors value for
any raw SCSI transport.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDouglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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