[PATCH] nvme-pci: fix prp list allocation

Matt Waltz matthewwaltzis at gmail.com
Sat Feb 12 14:16:24 PST 2022


On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 2:03 PM Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org> wrote:
> That only applies to chaining list elements. It does not apply to the
> "PRP list pointer in a command". The driver allocates from the 256B dma
> pool only for the command's PRP list pointer, so we're fine.

Ah yes, I was confused by the PRP2 definition which says it can be a
"PRP list pointer",
now I feel extremely silly. Guess I'll need to look elsewhere for a
fix for this bug I am
encountering, thank you for the clarity!



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