Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code andmmap

[Mika Penttilä]

Al Viro wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:53:32PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm taking NFS helpers to libfs.c and switching ncpfs to them.  IMO that's
> > better than copying the damn thing and other network filesystems might have
> > the same needs eventually...
> >    
>
> [something like this - completely untested]
>
> * stray_page_get_link(inode, filler) - returns ERR_PTR(error) or pointer
> to symlink body.  Said symlink body sits in a page at offset equal to
> offsetof(page, struct stray_page_link).  filler() is expected to put it
> at such offset. Page is cached.
>
> * stray_page_put_link() - ->put_link() suitable for links obtained from
> stray_page_get_link().  Unlike the usual pagecache-based variants, this
> sucker does _not_ rely on page staying cached.
>
> * nfs and ncpfs switched to the helpers above.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ----
>  

Just out of curiosity - what protects even local filesystems against 
concurrent truncate and symlink resolving when using the page cache helpers?

--Mika

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