linux-ext4 - [Bug 205569] potential data race (likely benign) on inode->i_state (reading and writing to different bits)

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Message-ID: <bug-205569-13602-04P9j2SH2I@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
Date:   Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:27:58 +0000
From:   bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 205569] potential data race (likely benign) on inode->i_state
 (reading and writing to different bits)

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205569

--- Comment #4 from Meng Xu (mengxu.gatech@...il.com) ---
(In reply to Theodore Tso from comment #3)
> Yes, it's benign.   An inode which is I_NEW or I_FREEING will never be in
> the writeback.

Many thanks for the confirmation Ted, in the future, I'll post these unsure
cases to the mailing list instead of filing a bug report.

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