>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Higdon <jer...@sgi.com> writes:

Jeremy> It appears to me that there is a problem with handling of type 1
Jeremy> protection information.  It is considering a logical block
Jeremy> reference tag of 0xffffffff to be an error, but it is actually
Jeremy> valid any time ((lba & 0xffffffff) == 0xffffffff) [for example,
Jeremy> 2TiB-1, 4TiB-1, 6TiB-1, etc.].

Yes, that's a bogus check. It's actually one I put in way back to debug
a faulty device and forgot to back out. My DIF test tooling does not
rely on the block layer generate/verify functions so I never noticed.

The same issue was reported recently by Keith Busch.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com>

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Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering
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