Hello stable-list,
I think this subjected patch [1] missed the below fixes tag. I guess the subjected patch is only picked for 5.7. And AFAIU, this patch will be needed for 5.6 as well.
Could you please do the needful.
Fixes: 244adf6426ee31a (ext4: make dioread_nolock the default)
[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/commit/?h=dev...
-ritesh
On 3/29/20 7:47 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 01:37:44AM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
Currently on calling echo 3 > drop_caches on host machine, we see FS corruption in the guest. This happens on Power machine where blocksize < pagesize.
So as a temporary workaound don't enable dioread_nolock by default for blocksize < pagesize until we identify the root cause.
Also emit a warning msg in case if this mount option is manually enabled for blocksize < pagesize.
Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani riteshh@linux.ibm.com
Thanks, applied.
- Ted