linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] f2fs: fix race between llseek SEEK

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Date:   Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:42:41 +0900
From:   Eiichi Tsukata <devel@...ukata.com>
To:     hch@...radead.org
Cc:     andi@...stfloor.org, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>,
        Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
        linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] f2fs: fix race between llseek SEEK_END and write

2018年11月21日(水) 18:23 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>:
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:43:59AM +0900, Eiichi Tsukata wrote:
> > This patch itself seems to be just a cleanup but with the
> > commit b25bd1d9fd87 ("vfs: fix race between llseek SEEK_END and write")
> > it fixes race.
>
> Please move this patch to the beginning of the series and replace
> the commit log with something like the one below.  Note that your
> commit id is different from the one that will appear once applied
> upstream, so the aboe isn't too helpful.
>
> ---
> f2fs: use generic_file_llseek
>
> f2fs always passes inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes to generic_file_llseek_size,
> and thus should simply use generic_file_llseek.  For now this is a just
> a cleanup, but it will allow f2fs to pick up a race fix in
> generic_file_llseek for free.

Thanks, I'll fix it in v2.