linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 03/28] ext4: ext4_mkdir should dirty dir

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Date:	Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:15:21 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
To:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/28] ext4: ext4_mkdir should dirty dir_block with the
	parent inode

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:11:47PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> Hi Darrick,
> On 10/08/2011 03:54 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > ext4_mkdir calls ext4_handle_dirty_metadata with dir_block and the inode "dir".
> > Unfortunately, dir_block belongs to the newly created directory (which is
> > "inode"), not the parent directory (which is "dir").  Fix the incorrect
> > association.
> could you please re-send this patch and other fixes that isn't related
> to metadata checksum? I need this when implementing inlined dir, and I
> guess this can be merged in this merge window.

Just FYI it's patches 1-5 of this patchset, but I'm happy to resend.

--D
> 
> Thanks
> Tao
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/ext4/namei.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
> > index 6d3fab4..50c7294 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
> > @@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@ retry:
> >  	ext4_set_de_type(dir->i_sb, de, S_IFDIR);
> >  	inode->i_nlink = 2;
> >  	BUFFER_TRACE(dir_block, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
> > -	err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, dir_block);
> > +	err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, dir_block);
> >  	if (err)
> >  		goto out_clear_inode;
> >  	err = ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
> > 
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