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SubjectRE: [PATCH 041/270] pnfsblock: fix partial page buffer wirte
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 8:46 PM
> To: Ben Hutchings
> Cc: Peng Tao; Myklebust, Trond; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> stable@vger.kernel.org; kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Herton Ronaldo
> Krzesinski
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 041/270] pnfsblock: fix partial page buffer wirte
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:33:24AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 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@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > commit fe6e1e8d9fad86873eb74a26e80a8f91f9e870b5 upstream.
> > >
> > > If applications use flock to protect its write range, generic NFS
> > > will not do read-modify-write cycle at page cache level. Therefore
> > > LD should know how to handle non-sector aligned writes. Otherwise
> > > there will be data corruption.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
> > > <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
> > [...]
> >
> > I notice that this fix is missing from 3.4, and will need backporting.
>
> I don't trust myself with backporting this, as I got it wrong. So if one of the
> NFS developers wants to do this (same goes for the other NFS patch), I'll
> gladly take it.
>

Tao would be the right person to do this since he has access to pNFS blocks hardware and can test the results.

Cheers
Trond


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