linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] block integrity: Fix write after checksum calculation problem

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Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:38:30 -0400
From:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>, djwong <djwong@...ibm.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mingming Cao <mcao@...ibm.com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] block integrity: Fix write after checksum calculation problem

Excerpts from Christoph Hellwig's message of 2011-04-11 14:25:41 -0400:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:41:16PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Actually this isn't a nit.  Keeping the page locked closes an important
> > hole where it can become writeback again.  It might fix the last
> > remaining problem.
> 
> Note that the generic block_page_mkwrite atually does that.  But only
> xfs and nilfs2 actually make use of it.
> 

Btrfs does return VM_FAULT_LOCKED though.  I had forgotten to look for
this in the ext4 page_mkwrite call.

-chris
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