Re: fixes for handling of split direct I/O bios

Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-24T16:57:36Z

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 12:49:26PM -0400, Sweet Tea Dorminy wrote:
> I'm pretty new and don't know much about the criteria for cc'ing stable,
> but arguably this makes the check_data_csum() error message not lie about
> the start offset in such cases and it seems like a very low risk
> improvement to me... might it be worth adding a Fixes: tag / might this be
> a reasonable fix for stable?

The error message is the least of the problems - if there is an I/O
error or checksum mismatch this bug will make the repair not work.