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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, hugh@veritas.com,
	viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] truncate vs add_to_page_cache race
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:50:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040514165038.17eb142b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A55647.8020904@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> I think the entire problem can be fixed by ensuring ->readpage and
> do_generic_mapping read see the same i_size. This would either mean
> passing i_size to or from ->readpage, *or* having ->readpage return
> the number of bytes read, for example.

Or not check i_size in ->readpage at all?

If fixing this is going to cost extra fastpath cycles I'd be inclined to
not bother, frankly.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-14 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-14  2:01 Nick Piggin
2004-05-14  2:20 ` Nick Piggin
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 [this message]
2004-05-15  0:09           ` Nick Piggin

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