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Date:   Tue, 25 May 2021 14:20:34 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     dsterba@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        stable@vger.kernel.org, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.12 038/127] btrfs: zoned: fix parallel compressed writes
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On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 02:00:54PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 05:25:55PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
> > 
> > commit 764c7c9a464b68f7c6a5a9ec0b923176a05e8e8f upstream.
> > 
> > When multiple processes write data to the same block group on a
> > compressed zoned filesystem, the underlying device could report I/O
> > errors and data corruption is possible.
> > 
> > This happens because on a zoned file system, compressed data writes
> > where sent to the device via a REQ_OP_WRITE instead of a
> > REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND operation. But with REQ_OP_WRITE and parallel
> > submission it cannot be guaranteed that the data is always submitted
> > aligned to the underlying zone's write pointer.
> > 
> > The change to using REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND instead of REQ_OP_WRITE on a
> > zoned filesystem is non intrusive on a regular file system or when
> > submitting to a conventional zone on a zoned filesystem, as it is
> > guarded by btrfs_use_zone_append.
> > 
> > Reported-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
> > Fixes: 9d294a685fbc ("btrfs: zoned: enable to mount ZONED incompat flag")
> > CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.12.x: e380adfc213a13: btrfs: zoned: pass start block to btrfs_use_zone_append
> > CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.12.x
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
> > Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> We found a bug in this patch, please drop it from 5.12 queue.

This one, and the previous one, now dropped.

thanks,

greg k-h