Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:40:36 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18 ext3 panic. |
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:28:20 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> Where can we call > journal_dirty_data() without PageLock?
block_write_full_page() will unlock the page, so ext3_writepage() will run journal_dirty_data_fn() against an unlocked page.
I haven't looked into the exact details of the race, but it should be addressable via jbd_lock_bh_state() or j_list_lock coverage. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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