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block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store 

Stacked devices do not. For now, just error out with -EINVAL. Later
we could make the limit apply on stacked devices too, for throttling
reasons.

This fixes

5a54cd13353bb3b88887604e2c980aa01e314309

and should go into 2.6.31 stable as well.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe 2009-09-11 22:44:29 +02:00
parent 3c5820c743
commit b8a9ae779f
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -40,7 +40,12 @@ queue_requests_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, size_t count)
{
struct request_list *rl = &q->rq;
unsigned long nr;
int ret = queue_var_store(&nr, page, count);
int ret;
if (!q->request_fn)
return -EINVAL;
ret = queue_var_store(&nr, page, count);
if (nr < BLKDEV_MIN_RQ)
nr = BLKDEV_MIN_RQ;