[PATCH] afs: Fix waiting for writeback then skipping folio

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Fri Jun 16 16:26:46 PDT 2023


Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Well, what I'm really asking is the thing I ask seven times a day:
> 
> - what are the end-user visible effects of the bug

A third party might see an incomplete flush after they've done a sync - which
amounts to temporary file corruption.

> - should be fix be backported into earlier kernels

Yes.

David




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