Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: fix crash while a ranged msync() is ongoing

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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 01:37:48PM +0100, Filipe Manana wrote:
> After the commit 7fc34a62ca4434a79c68e23e70ed26111b7a4cf8 (titled
> "mm/msync.c: sync only the requested range in msync()"), our fsync
> callback can be called with a range that covers only part of the
> file and not the whole file anymore.

Not that there have been other users of range fsyncs around for a long
time.  The SCSI target code is one, the NFS server another, and last but
not least generic_write_sync() which is used by most filesystems
including btrfs to implement O_SYNC writes.
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