linux-ext4 - Re: donor file data inconsistent after EXT4_IOC_MOVE

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:28:57 +0900
From:	Akira Fujita <a-fujita@...jp.nec.com>
To:	Peng Tao <bergwolf@...il.com>
CC:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kazuya Mio <k-mio@...jp.nec.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: donor file data inconsistent after EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT

Hi Peng,
Peng Tao wrote:
> Hi, Akira,
> 
> Peng Tao wrote:
>> Hi, Akira,
>> Akira Fujita wrote:
>>> Hi Peng,
>>>
>>> This is a known issue, and I sent a patch to linux-ext4 2 weeks ago.
>>> Unfortunately it is not included in the ext4 patch queue yet.
>>>
>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=125447192709338&w=2
>>>
>>> Would you retry your test case with above my patch?
>> It didn't work. I still got the old donor file data.
> invalidate_mapping_pages() in your patch won't invalidate the locked page returned by
> grab_cache_page(). The following patch addresses the bug by calling
> invalidate_inode_pages2_range() instead.

Though I tested my patch, I seem to have made a mistake.
Anyway, I confirmed your patch works fine, thank you.

Regards,
Akira Fujita
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html