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Jaegeuk Kim
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commit 5db470e229 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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