Re: [PATCH 0/2] block: Fix stale page cache of discard or zero out ioctl

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On 2021/11/10 15:37, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> Shinichiro,
> 
> On 11/9/2021 2:47 AM, Shin'ichiro Kawasaki wrote:
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>>
>> When BLKDISCARD or BLKZEROOUT ioctl race with data read, stale page cache is
>> left. This patch series have two fox patches for the stale page cache. Same
>> fix approach was used as blkdev_fallocate() [1].
>>
>> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=163236463716836
> 
> Thanks for the fixes, do we have blktest to validate this fix ?

Yes. The problem was detected with block/009.

-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research



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