On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Ok, this contains one of the fixes for the dirty inode buffer list (the
> other fix is pending, simply because I still want to understand why it
> would be needed at all). Al?
See previous posting. BTW, -pre5 doesn't do the right thing in clear_inode().
Scenario: bh of indirect block is busy (whatever reason, flush_dirty_buffers(),
anything that can bump ->b_count for a while). ext2_truncate() frees the
thing and does bforget(). bh is left on the inode's list. Woops...
The minimal fix would be to make clear_inode() empty the list. IMO it's
worse than preventing the freed stuff from being on that list...
Comments?
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