linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Warn when dirtying page without buffers in data=journal mode

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Message-Id: <164714672856.1260831.8397472020365050278.b4-ty@mit.edu>
Date:   Sat, 12 Mar 2022 23:45:39 -0500
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Warn when dirtying page without buffers in data=journal mode

On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:18:32 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Recently I've got a report of BUG_ON trigerring during transaction
> commit in ext4_journalled_writepage_callback() because we've spotted a
> dirty page without buffers. Add WARN_ON_ONCE to
> ext4_journalled_set_page_dirty() to catch the problematic condition
> earlier where we have better chance of understanding which code path is
> creating dirty data without preparing the page properly. Also update the
> comment with current information when we are at it.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] ext4: Warn when dirtying page without buffers in data=journal mode
      commit: 2bb8dd401a4f96973d6a9de4218d7f01fbd497ee

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>