linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

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Date:	Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:17:03 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, andrei.popa@...eo.ro,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>,
	Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>,
	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:16:17 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> wrote:

> >  out:
> >  	if (buffers_to_free) {
> >  		struct buffer_head *bh = buffers_to_free;
> 
> This will (at least) cause truncate to do peculiar things. 
> do_invalidatepage() runs discard_buffer() against the dirty page and will
> then expect try_to_free_buffers() to remove those buffers and then clean
> the page.  truncate_complete_page() will clean the page, but it still has
> those invalidated buffers.  We'll end up with a large number of clean,
> unused pages on the LRU, with attached buffers.  These should eventually
> get reaped, but it'll change the page aging dynamics.

That being said, it's be great to get this tested by someone who can
trigger this bug, please.
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