Bug 1166570
| Summary: | mv on a hardlink issues unlink and causes file loss in case mv <a> <b> and mv <b> <a> race | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Ondrej Vasik <ovasik> |
| Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Ondrej Vasik <ovasik> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | jscotka, kvolny, nbalacha, pbrady, qe-baseos-daemons, redhat, rgowdapp, srangana, vbellur |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | coreutils-8.22-13.el7 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
Cause:
Due to a race condition in mv hardlink handlink,...
Consequence:
...there was a possibility of data loss when doing multiple moves between hardlinked targets.
Fix:
mv behaviour was changed, so it now more follows POSIX and is better predictable.
Result:
Race in hardlink handling in mv can no longer occur.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | 1141368 | Environment: | |
| Last Closed: | 2015-11-19 12:44:54 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 1110700, 1141172, 1141368, 1142650, 1157667, 1191021 | ||
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Comment 5
errata-xmlrpc
2015-11-19 12:44:54 UTC
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