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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] m25p80: do not put iovec on the stack
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] m25p80: do not put iovec on the stack |
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Tue, 28 Jun 2016 08:33:57 -0600 |
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On 06/28/2016 02:39 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> When doing a read-modify-write cycle, QEMU uses the iovec after returning
> from blk_aio_pwritev. m25p80 puts the iovec on the stack of blk_aio_pwritev's
> caller, which causes trouble in this case. This has been a problem
> since commit 243e6f6 ("m25p80: Switch to byte-based block access",
> 2016-05-12) started doing writes at a smaller granularity than 512 bytes.
> In principle however it could have broken before when using -drive
> if=mtd,cache=none on a disk with 4K native sectors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> ---
> hw/block/m25p80.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
and thanks for tracking this one down
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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