On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:49:14AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:45:47AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > Ext2 does getblk+wait_on_buffer for new metadata blocks before
> > filling them with zeroes. While that is enough for single-processor,
> > on SMP we have the following race:
> >
> > getblk gives us unlocked, non-uptodate bh
> > wait_on_buffer() does nothing
> > read from device locks it and starts IO
>
> I see the race, but I don't see how you can actually trigger it.
>
> Exactly _who_ does the "read from device" part? Somebody doing a
/sbin/dump
> the wait-on-buffer is not strictly necessary: it's probably there to make
maybe not but I need to check some more bit to be sure.
Andrea
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