[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] block: fix sector comparism in multiwrite_req_compare

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 19.05.2010 20:53, schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> The difference between the start sectors of two requests can be larger
> than the size of the "int" type, which can lead to a not correctly
> sorted multiwrite array and thus spurious I/O errors and filesystem
> corruption due to incorrect request merges.
> 
> So instead of doing the cute sector arithmetics trick spell out the
> exact comparisms.
> 
> Spotted by Kevin Wolf based on a testcase from Michael Tokarev.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin