From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com,
"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix waiting for writeback then skipping folio
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:26:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <702771.1686958006@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230616162202.f46e1279d6b638406fd0eecd@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Well, what I'm really asking is the thing I ask seven times a day:
>
> - what are the end-user visible effects of the bug
A third party might see an incomplete flush after they've done a sync - which
amounts to temporary file corruption.
> - should be fix be backported into earlier kernels
Yes.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-16 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-07 20:41 [PATCH] afs: Fix dangling folio ref counts in writeback Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-06-07 20:41 ` [PATCH] afs: Fix waiting for writeback then skipping folio Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2023-06-09 0:50 ` Andrew Morton
2023-06-16 22:43 ` David Howells
2023-06-16 23:22 ` Andrew Morton
2023-06-16 23:26 ` David Howells [this message]
2023-06-16 22:43 ` David Howells
2023-06-16 22:30 ` [PATCH] afs: Fix dangling folio ref counts in writeback David Howells
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