linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 042/270] pnfsblock: fix non-aligned DIO read

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Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:34:48 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Peng Tao <tao.peng@....com>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com,
	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 042/270] pnfsblock: fix non-aligned DIO read

On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 14:55 -0200, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Peng Tao <bergwolf@...il.com>
> 
> commit f742dc4a32587bff50b13dde9d8894b96851951a upstream.
> 
> For DIO read, if it is not sector aligned, we should reject it
> and resend via MDS. Otherwise there might be data corruption.
> Also teach bl_read_pagelist to handle partial page reads for DIO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
[...]

This also hasn't been applied to 3.4, and presumably needs backporting.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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