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 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

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-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From d9ee65539d3eabd9ade46cca1780e3309ad0f907 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com 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@primarydata.com

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@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+ Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- fs/nfs/direct.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c +++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c @@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ 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 */ max_count, /* max expected count */ 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@primarydata.com are

queue-4.15/nfs-fix-unstable-write-completion.patch queue-4.15/nfs-fix-an-incorrect-type-in-struct-nfs_direct_req.patch queue-4.15/pnfs-prevent-the-layout-header-refcount-going-to-zero-in-pnfs_roc.patch