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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
