linux-kernel - Re: Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls V2

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Date:	Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:01:55 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...Helsinki.FI>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...l.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, tytso@....edu,
	tigran@...itas.com
Subject: Re: Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls V2

Ar Iau, 2006-07-27 am 18:33 +0300, ysgrifennodd Pekka Enberg:
> > Don't device drivers already do that for f_ops->flush (filp_close) and

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
> ->flush is called when each closing occurs.

Yes revoke calls it too, but is that sufficient, or do we need ->revoke?

Ar Iau, 2006-07-27 am 18:33 +0300, ysgrifennodd Pekka Enberg:
> > vm_ops->close (munmap)? What revoke and frevoke do is basically
> > unmap/fsync/close on all the open file descriptors.

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
> What happens if an app is already blocked on a read when you do a
> revoke ? The nasty case answer could be "it completes later on and
> returns the users captured password"

Ouch. You are right. I need to stick that invalidate_inode_pages2 
back in there. The do_fsync call takes care of writes only, obviously. 
Thanks!

				Pekka
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