[linux-lvm] LVM hang with some uses of raw i/o

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, at 11:44am, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> If I follow the VM code chain correctly down to find_extend_vma(), an
> offset into a page gets silently ignored on finding the VMA. This will
> petentially cause a user page to be overwritten corrupting user data which
> shouldn't cause the system to hang, but your process to go nuts.

  Um, is this a current bug other people should be worrying about?

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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