Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:25:25 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Suspected bug infilesystems (UFS,ADFS,BEFS,BFS,ReiserFS) related to sector_t being unsigned, advice requested |
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:35:10PM +0200, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote: > MF> Did you check the locking after this is removed? > > Locking should be fine. > As I remember, we take this lock near reiserfs_get_block() entrance, > and then drop it on exit. >
Ok, I just wondered if the sector_t merge overlooked this part, maybe it also changed the locking in this area because of that.
> MF> Maybe after the sector_t merges, this code covered a case that is left open > MF> now... > > This code was never executing anyway.
Right.
Thanks,
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