Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote: > > But I do not know what guarantees invalidate_inode_pages2 is supposed > to give. As soon as you emerge from iipages2, its work could be undone: yup. It cannot become a hard guarantee unless we add some new really big locks. So it can be fooled by silly or poorly-designed apps. What we're aiming for here is predictable behaviour for sanely-implemented applications and refusal to oops or to expose insecure data for poorly-designed ones or exploits. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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