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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Davide Italiano <dccitaliano@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Move check under lock scope to close a race.
Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 23:21:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150503032145.GF10014@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428468410-12793-2-git-send-email-dccitaliano@gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 09:46:50PM -0700, Davide Italiano wrote:
> fallocate() checks that the file is extent-based and returns
> EOPNOTSUPP in case is not. Other tasks can convert from and to
> indirect and extent so it's safe to check only after grabbing
> the inode mutex.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Davide Italiano <dccitaliano@gmail.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-03  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-08  4:46 [PATCH] ext4: move check under lock to avoid race Davide Italiano
2015-04-08  4:46 ` [PATCH] ext4: Move check under lock scope to close a race Davide Italiano
2015-04-20 20:50   ` Davide Italiano
2015-05-03  3:21   ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]

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