linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC 0/2] ext4: Fix stale data read exposure problem with DIO read/page

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Message-ID: <20200114163945.GC7127@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:39:45 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu, jack@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] ext4: Fix stale data read exposure problem with DIO
 read/page_mkwrite

> 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?