Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:58:50 +0100 (CET) | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | Subject | Re: is wait_on_buffer needed after getblk? |
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> > Some times ago I found a race in buffer code - many filesystems do > > getblk();mark_buffer_uptodate(); and then write to buffer. If the buffer > > is under read i/o, written data are lost. > > Andrea certainly submitted me some 2.2.x patches for ext2fs for this that I > merged. I don't know how it stands for 2.3.x
2.2.14pre12 contains the patch (only for ext2, other filesystems are still buggy). 2.3.31 not.
Mikulas
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