Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:01:58 -0600 | | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | | Subject | Re: NWFS broken on 2.4.3 -- someone removed WRITERAW |
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:58:09AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > > Hey guys, > > > > Whomever removed WRITERAW has broken NWFS. WRITE requests call > > _refile_buffer() after the I/O request and take my locally created > > buffer heads and munge them back into the linux buffer cache, causing > > massive memory corruption in the system. These buffers don't belong > > in Linus' buffer cache, they are owned by my LRU and ll_rw_block > > should not be blindly filing them back into the buffer cache. > > > > Please put something back in to allow me to write without the buffer > > heads always getting filed into Linus' buffer cache. This has > > broken NWFS on 2.4.3 and above. > > bh->b_end_io = my_end_io_handler; > submit_bh(WRITE, bh);
Jens,
Bless you. I'll code the fix, test it, and get it out.
Jeff
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