Re: [PATCH] Fix race in do_get_write_access()

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 17:10, Jan Kara wrote:

>   attached patch should fix the following race:
...
>   and we have sent wrong data to disk... We now clean the dirty buffer
> flag under buffer lock in all cases and hence we know that whenever a buffer
> is starting to be journaled we either finish the pending write-out
> before attaching a buffer to a transaction or we won't write the buffer
> until the transaction is going to be committed... Please apply.

Looks good to me.

Btw, how did you find this?  Were you able to reproduce this in
practice?

Cheers,
 Stephen

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