On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 03:50:55PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote: > As there's only a shared lock, seems like both would end up with the > same ctx->pos and end up updating f_pos to the same offset (assuming the > same count). > > Am I missing something? This: f = fdget_pos(fd); if (!f.file) return -EBADF; in the callers. Protection of struct file contents belongs to struct file, *not* struct inode. Specifically, file->f_pos_lock. *IF* struct file in question happens to be shared and the file is a regular or directory (sockets don't need any exclusion on read(2), etc.)