From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58562 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752250AbdHNAe1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:34:27 -0400 Subject: Patch "pnfs/blocklayout: require 64-bit sector_t" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: hch@lst.de, Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com, arnd@arndb.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 15:33:42 -0700 Message-ID: <1502663622134148@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled pnfs/blocklayout: require 64-bit sector_t to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: pnfs-blocklayout-require-64-bit-sector_t.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 8a9d6e964d318533ba3d2901ce153ba317c99a89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 10:59:14 +0200 Subject: pnfs/blocklayout: require 64-bit sector_t From: Christoph Hellwig commit 8a9d6e964d318533ba3d2901ce153ba317c99a89 upstream. 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 Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann Fixes: 5c83746a0cf2 ("pnfs/blocklayout: in-kernel GETDEVICEINFO XDR parsing") Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/nfs/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- 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_OBJLAYOUT Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@lst.de are queue-4.4/pnfs-blocklayout-require-64-bit-sector_t.patch