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From: "Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>
To: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linware@sh.cvut.cz, fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:50:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <430637F4.2050402@kolumbus.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050819194045.GG29811@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

Al Viro wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:16:47PM +0300, Mika Penttilä wrote:
>  
>
>>Just out of curiosity - what protects even local filesystems against 
>>concurrent truncate and symlink resolving when using the page cache helpers?
>>    
>>
>
>How do you get truncate(2) or ftruncate(2) to do something with a symlink?
>The former follows links, the latter takes an open file...
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>  
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Yes that is right, there is no way to invalidate the symlink inode 
mapping page(s) from user space.

--Mika





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From: "Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>
To: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linware@sh.cvut.cz, fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:50:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <430637F4.2050402@kolumbus.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050819194045.GG29811@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

Al Viro wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:16:47PM +0300, Mika Penttilä wrote:
>  
>
>>Just out of curiosity - what protects even local filesystems against 
>>concurrent truncate and symlink resolving when using the page cache helpers?
>>    
>>
>
>How do you get truncate(2) or ftruncate(2) to do something with a symlink?
>The former follows links, the latter takes an open file...
>-
>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
>More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
>Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/
>
>  
>
Yes that is right, there is no way to invalidate the symlink inode 
mapping page(s) from user space.

--Mika




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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-19 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-19 11:14 Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap Anton Altaparmakov
2005-08-19 14:20 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 15:44   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-08-19 15:58     ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 16:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 16:21       ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 16:21       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 16:43         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 16:53           ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 18:02             ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 18:00               ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-19 19:38                 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 19:41                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-08-19 19:43                     ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 21:19                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-19 20:35                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 21:20                     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-08-19 21:35                       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 21:42                     ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 19:16               ` Mika Penttilä
2005-08-19 19:40                 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 19:40                   ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 19:50                   ` Mika Penttilä [this message]
2005-08-19 19:50                     ` Mika Penttilä
2005-08-19 20:46           ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-08-19 20:55             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 21:39               ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-08-19 22:04                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 23:15                   ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 23:17                     ` Al Viro
2005-08-20  1:08                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-20  1:15                       ` Al Viro
2005-08-20 12:49                   ` Anton Altaparmakov

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