Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:20:43 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [patch] fix the 2nd buffer race properly |
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Nick Piggin wrote:
> The bug (the reason I asked you to drop the patch just now) > was that the code previously did a get_bh on all bh's in a > page, but I changed it to only put_bh the ones to be written. > > The minor fix for that was to only get_bh the buffer heads to > be written. >
Err, that wasn't very clear: my earlier patch to fix the problem introduced the above bh leak, but was otherwise correct in that it solved the underlying problem.
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