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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:07:54 +0800 From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com> To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: lock i_mutex when truncating orphan inodes On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:43:14AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Commit c278531d39f3 added a warning when ext4_flush_unwritten_io() is > called without i_mutex being taken. It had previously not been taken > during orphan cleanup since races weren't possible at that point in > the mount process, but as a result of this commit, we will now see a > kernel WARN_ON in this case. Take the i_mutex in > ext4_orphan_cleanup() to suppress this warning. > > Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com> > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com> Regards, - Zheng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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