Re: Known and unfixed active data loss bug in MM + XFS with large folios since Dec 2021 (any kernel from 6.1 upwards)

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Sep 16 2024 - 08:16:50 EST


On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 09:14:45AM +0200, Christian Theune wrote:
> Also, I’m still puzzled about the one variation that seems to involve page faults and not XFS. That’s something I haven’t seen a response to yet whether this IS in fact interesting or not.

It's not; once the page cache is corrupted, it doesn't matter whether
we go through the filesystem to get the page or not.