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From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, jack@suse.cz,
	wenqing.lz@taobao.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] ext4: fsync should wait for DIO writers
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:46:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120913104621.GC11330@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347211634-11509-5-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org>

On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 09:27:11PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> fsync and punch_hole are the places where we have to wait for all
> existing writers (writeback, aio, dio), but currently we simply
> flush pended end_io request which is not sufficient.
> Even more i_mutex is not holded while punch_hole which obviously
> result in dangerous data corruption due to write-after-free.

Hi Dmitry,

Lukas already has a patch to take i_mutex locking before punching a
hole.  Just a reminding. :-)

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1247271/

Regards,
Zheng

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-09 17:27 [PATCH 0/7] ext4: Bunch of DIO/AIO fixes Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 1/7] ext4: ext4_inode_info diet Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-13 10:50   ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-13 11:15     ` Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-15 15:53       ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 2/7] ext4: completed_io locking cleanup Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-10  9:23   ` Jan Kara
2012-09-10 10:19     ` Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-13 10:48   ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 3/7] ext4: serialize dio nolocked reads with defrag workers V2 Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-10  9:31   ` Jan Kara
2012-09-10 10:00     ` Jan Kara
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 4/7] ext4: fsync should wait for DIO writers Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-10  9:51   ` Jan Kara
2012-09-10 10:56     ` Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-12 14:02       ` Jan Kara
2012-09-12  5:40     ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-13 10:46   ` Zheng Liu [this message]
2012-09-13 11:01     ` Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-13 12:36       ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 5/7] ext4: serialize unlocked dio reads with truncate Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-10  9:54   ` Jan Kara
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 6/7] ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers V2 Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-13 10:41   ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-13 12:07     ` Jan Kara
2012-09-13 12:57       ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-13 14:34         ` Jan Kara
2012-09-13 23:31           ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 7/7] ext4: serialize truncate with owerwrite DIO workers V2 Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-13 10:37   ` Zheng Liu

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