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If we don't drop caches used in old offset or block_size, we can get old data from new offset/block_size, which gives unexpected data to user. For example, Martijn found a loopback bug in the below scenario. 1) LOOP_SET_FD loads first two pages on loop file 2) LOOP_SET_STATUS64 changes the offset on the loop file 3) mount is failed due to the cached pages having wrong superblock Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.