From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: olh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cramfs corruption after BLKFLSBUF on loop device
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:15:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060601121522.6783f233.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060601121200.457c0335.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:12:00 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> I'd have
> thought that it'd be appropriate to take i_mutex while running
> invalidate_inode_pages().
Let me add: it'd be appropriate, but also difficult -
invalidate_inode_pages() is called from all sorts of contexts, including
inside spinlock.
A quickie fix would be to take i_mutex at the top level, on entry to the
ioctl. But that'll only fix the BLKFLSBUF case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-01 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-29 21:40 Olaf Hering
2006-05-30 13:19 ` Olaf Hering
2006-05-30 18:24 ` Olaf Hering
2006-06-01 18:49 ` [PATCH] " Olaf Hering
2006-06-01 19:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-01 19:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-06-01 20:10 ` Olaf Hering
2006-06-01 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-01 21:41 ` Olaf Hering
2006-06-01 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-02 8:43 ` Olaf Hering
2006-06-02 9:11 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-02 19:14 ` Olaf Hering
2006-06-02 19:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-02 21:06 ` Olaf Hering
2006-06-02 19:37 ` Olaf Hering
2006-06-02 19:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-03 13:13 ` Olaf Hering
2006-06-01 20:17 ` Chris Mason
2006-06-01 20:20 ` Olaf Hering
2006-06-01 20:29 ` Chris Mason
2006-09-20 13:20 ` Olaf Hering
2006-09-20 18:47 ` Andrew Morton
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