Re: tmpfs returns incorrect data on concurrent pread() and truncate()

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First of all, thanks for your replies!

On 02.11.2016 00:51, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I don't think that there will be much appetite for changing the
> kernel's VFS to prevent that.  I hope that gocryptfs can provide
> the serialization that it needs for itself, or otherwise handle
> those zeroes without crashing.

Yes, I dropped the nonce sanity check, the MAC will catch the corruption
anyway.

Just FYI, xfstests generic/075 discovered this. The test itself does not check
the data it gets back, which is why it usually passes.

Best regards,
Jakob
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