Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jan 2012 23:53:38 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] vfs pile 1 |
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 11:50:40PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> WTF is ext4_symlink() doing in case of long symlinks? Look: > drop_nlink(inode); > err = ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode); > ext4_journal_stop(handle); > [write symlink body] > inc_nlink(inode); > err = ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode); > oh, I see... The comment above that re deadlocks and inability to do that > in a single transaction ;-/ > > OK, try this; that's equivalent to what they are doing and will not WARN_ON(); > I hadn't checked other filesystems for similar tricks yet, so this has a good > chance of being incomplete.
... and sure enough, ext3 has the same piece of fun.
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