Re: Still ext2-corruption in test8-pre5 (incl. OOPS)

From: Alexander Viro (aviro@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 20:17:24 EST


On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:

> Calltrace follows:

[bh==NULL in the loop in __block_commit_write()]

WTF? <thinks> Erm... Linus, I suspect that we are losing the thing on the
very simple effect: readpage() gets buffer_heads, all right, but then
we lose the lock. That's your window for losing the buffer_head ring of
that page.

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