linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC 1/3] ext2: Fix ki_pos update for DIO buffered-io fallback case

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

Message-ID: <ZVw0gJ8uqzsdGABV@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:39:28 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] ext2: Fix ki_pos update for DIO buffered-io fallback
 case

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 12:35:19AM +0530, Ritesh Harjani (IBM) wrote:
> Commit "filemap: update ki_pos in generic_perform_write", made updating
> of ki_pos into common code in generic_perform_write() function.
> This also causes generic/091 to fail.
> 
> Fixes: 182c25e9c157 ("filemap: update ki_pos in generic_perform_write")

Looks like this really was an in-flight collision with:
fb5de4358e1a ("ext2: Move direct-io to use iomap").  How did we manage
to not notice the failure for months, though?

Otherwise looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>