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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Pierre Barre <pierre@barre.sh>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, ericvh@kernel.org, lucho@ionkov.net,
	asmadeus@codewreck.org, linux_oss@crudebyte.com,
	v9fs@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] 9p: fix i_size update race in getattr with writeback caching
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:41:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1642566.1771422085@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1642497.1771421883@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> A better way is probably, in v9fs_stat2inode() and v9fs_stat2inode_dotl(), if
> the inode isn't new, compare the values for stat->mtime to inode->i_mtime and
> stat->length to v9inode->netfs.remote_i_size and if they differ mark the inode
> as being remotely modified, invalidate the pagecache and reset inode->i_size.
> 
> If stat->mtime == inode->i_mtime and stat->length ==
> v9inode->netfs.remote_i_size, then don't alter inode->i_size.

Also, you'd need to update remote_i_size upon successful completion of a write
RPC call to increase it up to the end of the write.

David


  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-18 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-27 18:01 [PATCH v2] 9p: fix i_size update race in getattr with writeback caching Pierre Barre
2026-01-05 11:35 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2026-01-07  0:27   ` Pierre Barre
2026-02-04 11:48     ` Christian Schoenebeck
2026-02-15  9:21       ` Dominique Martinet
2026-02-17 14:48   ` David Howells
2026-02-17 15:05   ` David Howells
2026-02-17 16:54     ` David Howells
2026-02-18 13:38 ` David Howells
2026-02-18 13:41   ` David Howells [this message]
2026-02-18 14:11     ` Dominique Martinet

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