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Nick Piggin authored
do_generic_mapping_read() { isize1 = i_size_read(); ... readpage copy_to_user up to isize1; } readpage() { isize2 = i_size_read(); ... read blocks ... zero-fill all blocks past isize2 } If a second thread runs truncate and shrinks i_size, so isize1 and isize2 are different, the read can return up to a page of zero-fill that shouldn't really exist. The trick is to read isize1 after doing the readpage. I realised this is the right way to do it without having to change the readpage API. The patch should not cost any cycles when reading from pagecache. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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