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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Yuan Tan <tanyuan@tinylab.org>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk,
	syzbot+f2aaf773187f5cae54f3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	falcon@tinylab.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: add lock for safe nrpages access in invalidate_bdev()
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:11:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z88dOtsjiIUx6apV@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250310165400.3166618-1-tanyuan@tinylab.org>

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 09:54:00AM -0700, Yuan Tan wrote:
> Syzbot reported a data-race in __filemap_add_folio / invalidate_bdev[1]
> due to concurrent access to mapping->nrpages.
> Adds a lock around the access to nrpages.

Did you even read my analysis?  This is a grossly inappropriate fix.
NAK.

      reply	other threads:[~2025-03-10 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-10  9:40 [syzbot] [mm?] [fs?] KCSAN: data-race in __filemap_add_folio / invalidate_bdev (8) syzbot
2025-03-10 15:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-03-10 16:54 ` [PATCH] block: add lock for safe nrpages access in invalidate_bdev() Yuan Tan
2025-03-10 17:11   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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