Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:47:23 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ext3 jbd needs to wait for locked buffers |
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Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote: > > jbd needs to wait for any io to complete on the buffer before > changing the end_io function.
Thanks, I bet that was fun to hunt down.
Same problem in 2.4, although there it looks like it'll just cause a memory leak. I guess if an app is mmapping a blockdev we could end up with a permanently locked page though.
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