Re: ntfs: remove unnecessary PG_uptodate check from ntfs_readpage

From: Anton Altaparmakov
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 10:02:06 EST


Please do not apply this patch or you will see metadata corruption on
NTFS.

Pekka, given there is a comment saying why this check is necessary, I
really do not understand how you can claim that it is not...

Best regards,

Anton

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The check is not needed because SetPageUptodate is called for locked pages
> and callers of ->readpage either explicitly check for PageUptodate or pass
> newly allocated pages (see read_cache_pages and page_cache_read).
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> fs/ntfs/aops.c | 8 --------
> 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>
> Index: 2.6/fs/ntfs/aops.c
> ===================================================================
> --- 2.6.orig/fs/ntfs/aops.c
> +++ 2.6/fs/ntfs/aops.c
> @@ -410,14 +410,6 @@ static int ntfs_readpage(struct file *fi
>
> retry_readpage:
> BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
> - /*
> - * This can potentially happen because we clear PageUptodate() during
> - * ntfs_writepage() of MstProtected() attributes.
> - */
> - if (PageUptodate(page)) {
> - unlock_page(page);
> - return 0;
> - }
> vi = page->mapping->host;
> ni = NTFS_I(vi);
> /*
>

Best regards,

Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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