linux-kernel - GFS2: pull request for high-priority bug

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Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:32:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>
To:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     cluster-devel <cluster-devel@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: GFS2: pull request for high-priority bug

Hi Linus,

Please consider pulling the following additional patch for the GFS2 file system.

Regards,

Bob Peterson

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The following changes since commit ae50dfd61665086e617cc9e554a1285d52765670:

  Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net (2017-03-14 21:31:23 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2.git tags/gfs2-4.11-rc3.fixes

for you to fetch changes up to 28ea06c46fbcab63fd9a55531387b7928a18a590:

  gfs2: Avoid alignment hole in struct lm_lockname (2017-03-15 10:06:07 -0400)

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This is an emergency patch for 4.11-rc3

The GFS2 developers uncovered a really nasty problem that
can lead to random corruption and kernel panic, much like
the last one. Andreas Gruenbacher wrote this simple one-line
patch to fix the problem:

28ea06c gfs2: Avoid alignment hole in struct lm_lockname

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Andreas Gruenbacher (1):
      gfs2: Avoid alignment hole in struct lm_lockname

 fs/gfs2/incore.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)