On Wed 01 Feb 2017 10:51:01 PM CET, Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> wrote:
> The assertion probably makes sense even for them, considering that > size_t does not have a constant size. But I'm not entirely sold that > the I/O vector creation is actually the place where the assertions > belong. I was actually just reading virtio_blk_handle_request() and I see that the I/O vector is initialized before the check for the maximum request size that returns VIRTIO_BLK_S_IOERR. So you're probably right and it's safer not to add that assertion. Berto