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SubjectRe: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.


On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> > the wait-on-buffer is not strictly necessary: it's probably there to make
>
> maybe not but I need to check some more bit to be sure.

Same scenario, but with read-in-progress started before we do getblk(). BTW,
old writeback is harmless - we will overwrite anyway. And _that_ can happen
without direct access to device - truncate() doesn't terminate writeout of
the indirect blocks it frees (IMO it should, but that's another story).

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