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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs: Make sure data stored into inode is properly seen before unlocking new inode
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:41:03PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> In theory it could happen that on one CPU we initialize a new inode but clearing
> of I_NEW | I_LOCK gets reordered before some of the initialization. Thus on
> another CPU we return not fully uptodate inode from iget_locked().
>
> This seems to fix a corruption issue on ext3 mounted over NFS.

Nice catch. ACK.

> Since Al doesn't seem to be online, does anybody else have opinion on this
> patch? I can merge it via my tree but I'd like to get a review from someone
> else.

I'm back, actually, and finally had almost crawled from under the pile
of mail in mbox. Will apply.


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