This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFS: Fix an incorrect type in struct nfs_direct_req to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nfs-fix-an-incorrect-type-in-struct-nfs_direct_req.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d9ee65539d3eabd9ade46cca1780e3309ad0f907 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:47:08 -0500 Subject: NFS: Fix an incorrect type in struct nfs_direct_req From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit d9ee65539d3eabd9ade46cca1780e3309ad0f907 upstream. The start offset needs to be of type loff_t. Fixed: 5fadeb47dcc5c ("nfs: count DIO good bytes correctly with mirroring") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.0+ Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/direct.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfs/direct.c +++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c @@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ struct nfs_direct_req { struct nfs_direct_mirror mirrors[NFS_PAGEIO_DESCRIPTOR_MIRROR_MAX]; int mirror_count; + loff_t io_start; /* Start offset for I/O */ ssize_t count, /* bytes actually processed */ bytes_left, /* bytes left to be sent */ - io_start, /* start of IO */ error; /* any reported error */ struct completion completion; /* wait for i/o completion */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/nfs-fix-an-incorrect-type-in-struct-nfs_direct_req.patch