Re: [PATCH 1/2] file-posix: fix Linux alignment probing when EIO is returned

[Eric Biggers]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 04:26:14PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > In other words, STATX_DIOALIGN is unusable from the start because we
> > don't know whether the information it returns is actually correct? :-/
> 
> That's a silly point of view.  STATX_DIOALIGN has only been in a released 
> kernel
> for a few weeks (v6.0), the bug is only in one edge case, and it will get 
> fixed
> quickly and backported to v6.0.y where users of 6.0 will get it.

Actually, scratch that.  STATX_DIOALIGN is in 6.1, not 6.0.  So it hasn't even
been released yet.  Upstream is currently on v6.1-rc3.

So thank you for reporting (or for not reporting?) this.  We'll make sure it
gets fixed before release :-)

- Eric