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 <bergw...@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.p...@emc.com> > > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@netapp.com> > > Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesin...@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. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
