Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:42:33 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VFS bugfix: two read_inode() calles without clear_inode() call between | From | Jan Harkes <> |
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:15:41PM +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: > Dear VFS developers, > > is it possible to review/comment/apply the patch which fixes a severe > VFS bug which screws up JFFS2? > > (the third attempt).
I think this is a problem that hit Coda at some point. We used to have a linked list that linked all the inodes together. However not long after the RCU changes, I noticed that this linked list occasionally got corrupted. I didn't want to dig too deep into all the dcache related changes where I thought the problem came from, nobody else seemed to be complaining and the linked list wasn't really necessary so I worked around the problem by removing the linked list strucure.
But I think you found the actual cause and this patch looks good to me, it probably should get merged.
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