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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:55:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:34:00PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Same scenario, but with read-in-progress started before we do getblk(). BTW,
> 
> how can the read in progress see a branch that we didn't spliced yet? We

fd = open("/dev/hda1", O_RDONLY);
read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));

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