Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:00:38 -0400 | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Thursday, April 26, 2001 02:24:26 PM -0400 Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >> correct. I bet other fs are affected as well btw. > > If only... block_read() vs. block_write() has the same race. I'm going > through the list of all wait_on_buffer() users right now. >
Looks like reiserfs has it too when allocating tree blocks, but it should be harder to hit. The fix should be small but it will take me a bit to make sure it doesn't affect the rest of the balancing code.
-chris
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