Re: is wait_on_buffer needed after getblk?
Mikulas Patocka (mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:58:50 +0100 (CET)
> > Some times ago I found a race in buffer code - many filesystems do
> > getblk();mark_buffer_uptodate(); and then write to buffer. If the buffer
> > is under read i/o, written data are lost.
>
> Andrea certainly submitted me some 2.2.x patches for ext2fs for this that I
> merged. I don't know how it stands for 2.3.x
2.2.14pre12 contains the patch (only for ext2, other filesystems are still
buggy). 2.3.31 not.
Mikulas
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