This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Drivers: hv: util: Properly pack the data for file copy functionality
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-next branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release
during the merge window.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From bc5a5b02331a3175a5fca20a4beba249e573b672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 19:21:47 -0700
Subject: Drivers: hv: util: Properly pack the data for file copy functionality
Properly pack the data for file copy functionality. Patch based on
investigation done by Matej Muzila <mmuzila@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: <qge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h b/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h
index 78e4a86030dd..0a8e6badb29b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ struct hv_do_fcopy {
__u64 offset;
__u32 size;
__u8 data[DATA_FRAGMENT];
-};
+} __attribute__((packed));
/*
* An implementation of HyperV key value pair (KVP) functionality for Linux.
--
2.1.0
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