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Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 00:09:27 -0500
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH-v2] pnfsblock: bail out partial page IO
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Hi,

Peng Tao wrote:

> Current block layout driver read/write code assumes page
> aligned IO in many places. Add a checker to validate the assumption.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>

Does this fix a build error, oops, hang, data corruption, real
security issue, or other important bug that has been bothering people?

If so, please add a few more words explaining the symptoms in the
commit log.  If not, it sounds like a good change but it wouldn't be
suitable for stable.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan