Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix waiting for writeback then skipping folio

[David Howells]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, what I'm really asking is the thing I ask seven times a day:
> 
> - what are the end-user visible effects of the bug

A third party might see an incomplete flush after they've done a sync - which
amounts to temporary file corruption.

> - should be fix be backported into earlier kernels

Yes.

David