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Message-ID: <20120518101210.GX25351@dastard> Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 20:12:10 +1000 From: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org Subject: Re: Hole punching and mmap races On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 01:28:29AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 17-05-12 17:43:08, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 03:04:45PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > On Wed 16-05-12 12:14:23, Dave Chinner wrote: > > IIRC, it's a rare case (that I consider insane, BTW): read from a > > file with into a buffer that is a mmap()d region of the same file > > that has not been faulted in yet..... > With punch hole, the race is less insane - just punching hole in the area > which is accessed via mmap could race in a bad way AFAICS. Seems the simple answer to me is to prevent page faults while hole punching, then.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@...morbit.com -- 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
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