From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Shiyang Ruan <ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <nvdimm@lists.linux.dev>,
<dan.j.williams@intel.com>, <willy@infradead.org>, <jack@suse.cz>,
<djwong@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsdax: unshare: zero destination if srcmap is HOLE or UNWRITTEN
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:03:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230322160311.89efea3493db4c4ccad40a25@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1679483469-2-1-git-send-email-ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com>
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:11:09 +0000 Shiyang Ruan <ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> unshare copies data from source to destination. But if the source is
> HOLE or UNWRITTEN extents, we should zero the destination, otherwise the
> result will be unexpectable.
Please provide much more detail on the user-visible effects of the bug.
For example, are we leaking kernel memory contents to userspace?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-22 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-22 11:11 [PATCH] fsdax: unshare: zero destination if srcmap is HOLE or UNWRITTEN Shiyang Ruan
2023-03-22 23:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-03-23 6:50 ` Shiyang Ruan
2023-03-23 14:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-03-23 22:11 ` Andrew Morton
2023-03-24 1:50 ` Shiyang Ruan
2023-03-24 3:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-03-24 3:42 ` Shiyang Ruan
2023-03-24 4:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-03-24 4:28 ` Shiyang Ruan
2023-03-24 20:44 ` Andrew Morton
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