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nvmet-rdma: Don't use the inline buffer in order to avoid allocation for small reads
authorSagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:04:09 +0000 (18:04 +0300)
committerSagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Thu, 4 Aug 2016 14:44:40 +0000 (17:44 +0300)
commit5202e0871e725ba018464d2c0b0be2dbeb154f83
treef947b259e8c9c1a1d183603ead13d2c386ae8ec8
parent17cd12485ef17b88cb871643e61404f5ea5ff5a7
nvmet-rdma: Don't use the inline buffer in order to avoid allocation for small reads

Under extreme conditions this might cause data corruptions. By doing that
we we repost the buffer and then post this buffer for the device to send.
If we happen to use shared receive queues the device might write to the
buffer before it sends it (there is no ordering between send and recv
queues). Without SRQs we probably won't get that if the host doesn't
mis-behave and send more than we allowed it, but relying on that is not
really a good idea.

Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
drivers/nvme/target/rdma.c