Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:42:06 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: test12-pre5 |
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok, this contains one of the fixes for the dirty inode buffer list (the > other fix is pending, simply because I still want to understand why it > would be needed at all). Al?
See previous posting. BTW, -pre5 doesn't do the right thing in clear_inode().
Scenario: bh of indirect block is busy (whatever reason, flush_dirty_buffers(), anything that can bump ->b_count for a while). ext2_truncate() frees the thing and does bforget(). bh is left on the inode's list. Woops...
The minimal fix would be to make clear_inode() empty the list. IMO it's worse than preventing the freed stuff from being on that list...
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