linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] lightnvm: pblk fix for 4.13

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Date:   Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:09:37 +0200
From:   Javier González <javier@...igon.com>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] lightnvm: pblk fix for 4.13

> On 28 Jul 2017, at 16.06, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> wrote:
> 
> On 07/28/2017 07:13 AM, Javier González wrote:
>> Hi Jens,
>> 
>> Can you pick up this fix for 4.13? It is a fix to a read corruption in
>> pblk that has been there form the beginning. It is due to a bad bio
>> manipulation in the case that an I/O containing lbas that are invalid,
>> point to data in the host cache and point to data on the device, all
>> three in a single bio.
>> 
>> The patch applies on top of you for-4.13/block and is available too at:
>>  - https://github.com/OpenChannelSSD/linux/tree/pblk.for-4.13
>> 
>> I marked the patch to fix the original pblk commit, but it does not
>> apply anymore on the original 4.12 code. How do we handle these
>> situations? We make a backport when Greg makes 4.12 stable?
> 
> Greg will email you if it doesn't apply, then you can reply back
> with a version that does apply against 4.12.

Makes sense. Thanks for explaining :)

Javier

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