Re: [PATCH] pnfs/blocklayout: require 64-bit ѕector_t

[Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>]

Hi Christoph,

On 08/11/2017 11:14 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Trond, Anna,
> 
> can you pick this up?  Maybe even for 3.13 given that it should
> be pretty harmless for 98% of the configfs, and will prevent problems
> for the others.

The patch looks okay to me, so I'll take it for the next rc.

Anna

> 
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 10:59:14AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> The blocklayout code does not compile cleanly for a 32-bit sector_t,
>> and also has no reliable checks for devices sizes, which makes it
>> unsafe to use with a kernel that doesn't support large block devices.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>> Fixes: 5c83746a0cf2 ("pnfs/blocklayout: in-kernel GETDEVICEINFO XDR parsing")
>> ---
>>  fs/nfs/Kconfig | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/nfs/Kconfig b/fs/nfs/Kconfig
>> index 69d02cf8cf37..5f93cfacb3d1 100644
>> --- a/fs/nfs/Kconfig
>> +++ b/fs/nfs/Kconfig
>> @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ config PNFS_FILE_LAYOUT
>>  config PNFS_BLOCK
>>  	tristate
>>  	depends on NFS_V4_1 && BLK_DEV_DM
>> +	depends on 64BIT || LBDAF
>>  	default NFS_V4
>>  
>>  config PNFS_FLEXFILE_LAYOUT
>> -- 
>> 2.11.0
>>
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