linux-kernel - Re: Update of file offset on write() etc. is non-atomic with I/O

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Date:	Thu, 06 Mar 2014 16:03:44 +0100
From:	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	mtk.manpages@...il.com, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	Theodore T'so <tytso@....edu>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...i.umich.edu>,
	Yongzhi Pan <panyongzhi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Update of file offset on write() etc. is non-atomic with I/O

On 03/03/2014 06:36 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, sorry for the long delay, I was distracted (and hoping that Al
> would come up with a patch).
> 
> Anyway, attached is the patch I think we should do for this issue. It
> is fairly simple:
> 
>  - it adds a "f_pos_mutex" to the "struct file".
> 
>  - it adds a new FMODE_ATOMIC_POS flag to the file mode flags to mark
> things that need atomic f_pos updates
> 
>  - it makes the "struct fd" flags be two flags rather than one: the
> second flag is for "unlock f_pos_mutex when done"
> 
>  - it introduces "fd[get,put]_pos()" which gets the f_pos_mutex when required
> 
>  - it makes read/write/lseek use that.
> 
> It's pretty damn straightforward, I think, and is minimally serializing.
> 
> Al, comments? Yongzhi Pan, this is pretty much untested, but it's
> pretty simple and it does fix your test-case.

The original code (where Yongzhi Pan reported an issue) and
the multi_writer.c test code where both mine actually. Anyway,
I applied the patch to 3.14-rc5, and I (not withstanding the other
points raised by Al about the patch) I confirm that this patch makes 
the  problem that I'm seeing go away.

Thanks for looking at this, Linus.

Cheers,

Michael

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