linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix fast commit alignment issues

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Message-ID: <YLg3d/BxDgTaCPEm@mit.edu>
Date:   Wed, 2 Jun 2021 21:59:19 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix fast commit alignment issues

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 02:59:20PM -0700, Harshad Shirwadkar wrote:
> From: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>
> 
> Fast commit recovery data on disk may not be aligned. So, when the
> recovery code reads it, this patch makes sure that fast commit info
> found on-disk is first memcpy-ed into an aligned variable before
> accessing it. As a consequence of it, we also remove some macros that
> could resulted in unaligned accesses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted