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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, rees@umich.edu, bharrosh@panasas.com,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-v2] pnfsblock: bail out partial page IO
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 00:09:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120529050927.GB14016@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338265793-11387-1-git-send-email-bergwolf@gmail.com>

Hi,

Peng Tao wrote:

> Current block layout driver read/write code assumes page
> aligned IO in many places. Add a checker to validate the assumption.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>

Does this fix a build error, oops, hang, data corruption, real
security issue, or other important bug that has been bothering people?

If so, please add a few more words explaining the symptoms in the
commit log.  If not, it sounds like a good change but it wouldn't be
suitable for stable.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-29  5:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-29  4:29 [PATCH-v2] pnfsblock: bail out partial page IO Peng Tao
2012-05-29  5:09 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]

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