Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 14:55:19 EST


On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:34:00PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Same scenario, but with read-in-progress started before we do getblk(). BTW,
>
> how can the read in progress see a branch that we didn't spliced yet? We

fd = open("/dev/hda1", O_RDONLY);
read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));

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