linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fuse: fix race in fuse

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Date:	Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:21:59 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@...allels.com>
Cc:	fuse-devel <fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel@...nvz.org, Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fuse: fix race in fuse_writepages()

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@...allels.com> wrote:

>> Just one nit, why orig_pages? req->pages is already there, so why
>> duplicate it?
>
>
> req->pages is there, but it is already occupied by new pages (allocated by
> fuse_writepages_fill). We can't re-use req->pages for original pages because
> as soon as we put the request to bg_queue (in fuse_writepages_send) and
> released fc->lock, req->pages may be accessed w/o any delay. So we have two
> bunches of pointers to "struct page" to be stashed somewhere : original and
> new one. req->pages is for new pages, orig_pages[] is for original ones.

Yeah.  Applied the original patch.

Thanks,
Miklos
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