linux-kernel - [PATCH] buffer: Kill old incorrect? comment.

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 10:43:06 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] buffer:  Kill old incorrect? comment.


Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 fs/buffer.c |    5 -----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index c6b58e8..ad9270b 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1029,11 +1029,6 @@ failed:
 /*
  * Create buffers for the specified block device block's page.  If
  * that page was dirty, the buffers are set dirty also.
- *
- * Except that's a bug.  Attaching dirty buffers to a dirty
- * blockdev's page can result in filesystem corruption, because
- * some of those buffers may be aliases of filesystem data.
- * grow_dev_page() will go BUG() if this happens.
  */
 static int
 grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
-- 
1.5.1.1.181.g2de0

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