Re: [PATCH]: ufs: ufs_get_locked_patch race fix

From: Evgeniy Dushistov
Date: Tue Aug 01 2006 - 03:20:34 EST


On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:02:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:57:02 +0400
> Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> Is there any need to be checking ->index? Normally we simply use the
> sequence:
>
> lock_page(page);
> if (page->mapping == NULL)
> /* truncate got there first */
>
> to handle this case.

Yes, I made it in analogy with `find_lock_page' and missed fact
that if we increment usage counter of page, we have no need to check
page->index.

Need another patch?

--
/Evgeniy

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