Re: [PATCH 05/18] ext2: Avoid DAX zeroing to corrupt data

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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:35:28PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Currently ext2 zeroes any data blocks allocated for DAX inode however it
> still returns them as BH_New. Thus DAX code zeroes them again in
> dax_insert_mapping() which can possibly overwrite the data that has been
> already stored to those blocks by a racing dax_io(). Avoid marking
> pre-zeroed buffers as new.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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