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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS hole punch races
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 16:44:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160502234432.GB14806@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160322155740.GB28772@quack.suse.cz>

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 04:57:40PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> similarly to ext4 also XFS had races between hole punching and page faults
> which could result in data corruption. The fixes were merged in 4.1-rc1 but
> it might make sense to backport them to older stable releases given the
> nature of the issue.
> 
> Relevant fixes are:
> 
> de0e8c20ba3a65b0f15040aabbefdc1999876e6b
> 075a924d45cc69c75a35f20b4912b85aa98b180a
> e8e9ad42c1f1e1bfbe0e8c32c8cac02e9ebfb7ef
> 0f9160b444e4de33b65dfcd3b901358a3129461a
> 723cac48473358939759885a18e8df113ea96138
> ec56b1f1fdc69599963574ce94cc5693d535dd64

None of these apply to 3.14-stable, so I'm not going to worry about them
:)

thanks,

greg k-h

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-02 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-22 15:57 XFS hole punch races Jan Kara
2016-05-02 23:44 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-05-15 22:23 ` Ben Hutchings
2016-06-04 17:11 ` Ben Hutchings
2016-06-04 23:28   ` Dave Chinner
2016-06-05  1:19     ` Ben Hutchings
2016-06-05  2:16       ` Dave Chinner
2016-06-05  5:16         ` Willy Tarreau

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