Re: [RESEND][PATCH] 9p: add write-cache support to loose cache mode

["Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On 2/13/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:55:31 -0600 Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > +int v9fs_prepare_write(struct file *file, struct page *page,
> > +                    unsigned from, unsigned to)
> > +{
> > +     if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
> > +             if (to - from != PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) {
> > +                     void *kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
> > +                     memset(kaddr, 0, from);
> > +                     memset(kaddr + to, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - to);
> > +                     flush_dcache_page(page);
> > +                     kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
> > +             }
> > +             SetPageUptodate(page);
> > +     }
>
> This will mark the page uptodate while the piece between `to' and `from' is
> uninitialised.  A concurrent pagefault can come in and permit a read of
> that uninitialised data.  Because filemap_nopage() doesn't lock the page if
> it is uptodate.

Okay - I snagged this code from fs/libfs.c (simple_prepare_write) --
is that code also not correct, or am I just using it in the wrong
context?

       -eric
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/