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SubjectRe: [patch 1/9] fs: libfs buffered write leak fix
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:49:47PM +0000, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Sat, 3 February 2007 02:33:16 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >
> > If doing a partial-write, simply clear the whole page and set it uptodate
> > (don't need to get too tricky).
>
> That sounds just like a bug I recently fixed in logfs. prepare_write()
> would clear the page, commit_write() would write the whole page. Bug
> can be reproduced with a simple testcate:
>
> echo -n foo > foo
> echo -n bar >> foo
> cat foo
>
> With the bug, the second write will replace "foo" with "\0\0\0" and
> cat will return "bar". Doing a read instead of clearing the page will
> return "foobar", as would be expected.
>
> Can you hit the same bug with your patch or did I miss something?

Yes, the page is only cleared if it is not uptodate. This is fine
for the simple filesystems.
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