24 Nov
2021
24 Nov
'21
9:23 a.m.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 1:40 AM Justin Forbes jmforbes@linuxtx.org wrote:
Thanks, did a scratch build for that and dropped it in the bug. Only one user has reported back, but the report was that it did not fix the issue. I have also gotten confirmation now that the issue is occuring with 5.16-rc2.
Okay.
Morning light brings clarity to the mind. Here's a patch that should definitely fix this bug, as well as the very unlikely race of the page being truncated from the page cache before pipe_buf_release() is called.
Please test.
Thanks, Miklos