Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:30:45 +0400 | From | Evgeniy Dushistov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5]: ufs: missed brelse and wrong baseblk |
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:13:06PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Which is fsck-all protection, since then you proceed to do a lot of > blocking operations. Now, lock_super() down in balloc.c _might_ be > enough, but I wouldn't bet on that.
There is still leak of proper locking model for inode's metadata, for example we don't lock/unlock buffer_head when check if we've already allocated block or not, so lock_kernel still necessary.
-- /Evgeniy
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