Re: [PATCH] ext3 jbd needs to wait for locked buffers

[Andrew Morton]

Chris Mason <mason@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> jbd needs to wait for any io to complete on the buffer before
>  changing the end_io function.

Thanks, I bet that was fun to hunt down.

Same problem in 2.4, although there it looks like it'll just cause a memory
leak.  I guess if an app is mmapping a blockdev we could end up with a
permanently locked page though.

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