On 07/30/2014 06:34 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:18:47PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> When brd_direct_access() is called on a partition-bdev >> it would access the wrong sector. And caller would then >> corrupt the device's data. >> >> This is a preliminary fix, Matthew Wilcox has a patch >> in his DAX patchset which will define a global wrapper >> to bdev->bd_disk->fops->direct_access that will do the >> proper checks and translations before calling a driver >> global member. (The way it is done at the rest of the >> block stack) > > Uh, no, let's just focus on getting the DAX code in instead of putting > in interim patches that will conflict. Patch 4/22 is uncontroversial, > fixes this problem, has no dependencies, and is key to the rest of the DAX > patchset. If this problem wants to be fixed, then put 4/22 in instead. >
OK, I agree, could you please push 4/22 as reply to here for Jens to take for 3.17 ? (together with my 1/2) Thanks Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
