Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:00:37 -0500 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ext4: Initialize list properly |
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:35:31PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > We need to initialize the list_head properly before we add > them to the any list. Otherwise with list debug on we get > list corruption warnings. > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Added to the ext4 patch queue with a slight adjustment in the patch commit for readability issues:
When creating a new ext4_prealloc_space structure, we have to initialize its list_head pointers before we add them to any prealloc lists. Otherwise, with list debug enabled, we will get list corruption warnings.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
- Ted
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