Re: [PATCH 5.15] fuse: Fix race condition in writethrough path A race

Miklos Szeredi
2025-10-14T16:10:58Z

On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 at 15:57, Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> wrote:

> But TBH, if the writeback thing or something similarly simple works for
> resolving the immediate bug, I wouldnt worry too much about it
> until/unless there are userspace fs' explicitly looking for that sort of
> behavior. Just my .02.

Agreed.

I just feel it unfortunate that this is default in libfuse and so many
filesystems will have auto_inval_data enabled which don't even need
it, and some mixed read-write workloads suffering badly as a
consequence.

Thanks,
Miklos