linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] brd: Refuse improperly aligned discard requests

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Message-ID: <563BB804.8020003@kernel.dk>
Date:	Thu, 5 Nov 2015 13:11:48 -0700
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brd: Refuse improperly aligned discard requests

On 11/04/2015 09:13 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> Currently when improperly aligned discard request is submitted, we just
> silently discard more / less data which results in filesystem corruption
> in some cases. Refuse such misaligned requests.

Applied, thanks Jan.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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