From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, jack@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] ext4: Fix stale data read exposure problem with DIO read/page_mkwrite
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:39:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200114163945.GC7127@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1578907890.git.riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
> Currently there is a small race window as pointed out by Jan [2] where, when
> ext4 tries to allocate a written block for mapped files and if DIO read is in
> progress, then this may result into stale data read exposure problem.
Do we have a test case for the problem?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-14 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-13 11:04 [RFC 0/2] ext4: Fix stale data read exposure problem with DIO read/page_mkwrite Ritesh Harjani
2020-01-13 11:04 ` [RFC 1/2] iomap: direct-io: Move inode_dio_begin before filemap_write_and_wait_range Ritesh Harjani
2020-01-13 21:51 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-14 9:05 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-14 16:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 9:19 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-15 14:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 9:12 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-14 16:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 17:19 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-14 18:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 9:08 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-13 11:04 ` [RFC 2/2] ext4: Fix stale data read issue with DIO read & ext4_page_mkwrite path Ritesh Harjani
2020-01-14 9:47 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-14 22:25 ` Ritesh Harjani
2020-01-14 16:39 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-01-14 22:33 ` [RFC 0/2] ext4: Fix stale data read exposure problem with DIO read/page_mkwrite Ritesh Harjani
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