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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk" 
	<viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] truncate vs add_to_page_cache race
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:20:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40A42CEB.2000007@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A42892.5040802@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hi,
> I think there is a race between truncate and do_generic_mapping_read.

> Comments? Too ugly? Have I've missed something?

Hmm, no I think the right timing can still cause readpage to see
the shortened i_size and fill the page with zeros.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-14  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-14  2:01 [PATCH][RFC] truncate vs add_to_page_cache race Nick Piggin
2004-05-14  2:20 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-05-14  2:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-14  2:39   ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-14  3:10     ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-14  3:15       ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-14 23:29       ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-14 23:50         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-15  0:09           ` Nick Piggin

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