Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:34:00 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > the wait-on-buffer is not strictly necessary: it's probably there to make > > maybe not but I need to check some more bit to be sure.
Same scenario, but with read-in-progress started before we do getblk(). BTW, old writeback is harmless - we will overwrite anyway. And _that_ can happen without direct access to device - truncate() doesn't terminate writeout of the indirect blocks it frees (IMO it should, but that's another story).
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