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    SubjectRe: RFC: Bug in generic_forget_inode() ?
    Russ Weight <rweight@us.ibm.com> wrote:
    >
    > generic_forget_inode() is eventually called (within the context of
    > iput), the inode is placed on the unused list, and the inode_lock is
    > dropped.
    >
    > kswapd calls prune_icache(), locks the inode_lock, and pulls the same
    > inode off of the unused list. Upon completion, prune_icache() calls
    > dispose_list() for the inodes that it has collected.
    >
    > generic_forget_inode() calls write_inode_now(), which calls
    > __writeback_single_inode() which calls __sync_single_inode().
    > __sync_single_inode() panics when attempting to move the inode onto the
    > unused list (the last call to list_move). This is due to the poison
    > values that were previously loaded into the next and prev list pointers
    > by list_del().

    It's not clear what the actual bug is here. When you say that
    __sync_single_inode() panics over the list pointers, who was it that
    poisoned them? dispose_list()?

    Certainly isofs_fill_super() could trivially be rewritten to not do the
    iget()/iput() but we should be sure that that's really the bug. The inode
    lifetime management is rather messy, I'm afraid.
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