On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 04:23:46PM +1000, npiggin@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hi stable team, > > This is the sequence of applicable fixes for 2.6.27.stable to solve > the page_mkwrite issues. The series solves 2 problems in the core APIs: > - the problem of incorrect return values (eg. causing SIGBUS when there is an > OOM or page invalidation). > - the problem of insufficient synchronisation between mm and filesystem, > which results in at least NFS being quite easily broken with mmap()ed > writes. > > And it also updates several filesystems to fix the issues on their side. > > I think it has been agreed to get these fixes into .stable kernels (they > are all upstream). > > One issue is that there are several filesystems (basically, any which > supply ->page_mkwrite) which could be broken but maybe have not had > anybody look at them yet (OCFS2, UBIFS maybe). Anyway, if fs maintainers > eventually do add any fixes here, it would be appreciated if you keep > .stable in mind as well. Thanks for the patch series, I've applied them all to the next .27-stable queue. greg k-h -- 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
