linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH -V2 3/5] ext4: Fix the race between read_block_bitmap and mark_diskspace

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Message-ID: <20081124064058.GA11584@skywalker>
Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:10:58 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, cmm@...ibm.com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 3/5] ext4: Fix the race between read_block_bitmap
	and mark_diskspace_used

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 02:02:24PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:01:35PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > Same is true with inode bitmap also.
> > 
> 
> I don't see how this patch could affect any races with the inode
> bitmaps; the patch only affects mballoc.c, and only changes the
> locking around bitmaps.

The intent was to explain why we need
[PATCH -V2 5/5] ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap
and ext4_new_inode


> 
> This is one that I think we may want to send to Linus soon as a 2.6.28
> bugfix.
> 

Yes.

-aneesh
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