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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] NFS: Fix an unstable write data integrity race
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:55:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271969735.5693.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271969421-7443-6-git-send-email-Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 16:50 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: 
> Commit 2c61be0a9478258f77b66208a0c4b1f5f8161c3c (NFS: Ensure that the WRITE
> and COMMIT RPC calls are always uninterruptible) exposed a race on file
> close. In order to ensure correct close-to-open behaviour, we want to wait
> for all outstanding background commit operations to complete.
> 
> This patch adds an inode flag that indicates if a commit operation is under
> way, and provides a mechanism to allow ->write_inode() to wait for its
> completion if this is a data integrity flush.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
> ---

BTW: There is a bugzilla report associated to this problem:
   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15819

Cheers
  Trond


      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-22 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-22 20:50 [PATCH 0/5] Please review bugfixes for mainline Trond Myklebust
2010-04-22 20:50 ` [PATCH 1/5] SUNRPC: Fix a bug in rpcauth_prune_expired Trond Myklebust
2010-04-22 20:50   ` [PATCH 2/5] NFSv4: Don't attempt an atomic open if the file is a mountpoint Trond Myklebust
2010-04-22 20:50     ` [PATCH 3/5] NFS: rsize and wsize settings ignored on v4 mounts Trond Myklebust
2010-04-22 20:50       ` [PATCH 4/5] nfs: testing for null instead of ERR_PTR() Trond Myklebust
2010-04-22 20:50         ` [PATCH 5/5] NFS: Fix an unstable write data integrity race Trond Myklebust
2010-04-22 20:55           ` Trond Myklebust [this message]

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