Ar Iau, 2006-07-27 am 18:33 +0300, ysgrifennodd Pekka Enberg: > > Don't device drivers already do that for f_ops->flush (filp_close) and On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Alan Cox wrote: > ->flush is called when each closing occurs. Yes revoke calls it too, but is that sufficient, or do we need ->revoke? Ar Iau, 2006-07-27 am 18:33 +0300, ysgrifennodd Pekka Enberg: > > vm_ops->close (munmap)? What revoke and frevoke do is basically > > unmap/fsync/close on all the open file descriptors. On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Alan Cox wrote: > What happens if an app is already blocked on a read when you do a > revoke ? The nasty case answer could be "it completes later on and > returns the users captured password" Ouch. You are right. I need to stick that invalidate_inode_pages2 back in there. The do_fsync call takes care of writes only, obviously. Thanks! Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
