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Message-ID: <4665113E.5070908@sw.ru>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:31:10 +0400
From: Vasily Averin <vvs@...ru>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Vasily Averin <vvs@...ru>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
devel@...nvz.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
Stephen Tweedie <sct@...hat.com>, adilger@...sterfs.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH ext3/ext4] orphan list corruption due bad inode
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:11:12AM +0400, Vasily Averin wrote:
>>>> return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
>>>> }
>>> Seems reasonable. So this prevents the bad inodes from getting onto the
>>> orphan list in the first place?
>> make_bad_inode() is called from ext3_read_inode() that is called from iget() only.
>
> Which is artefact of using the read_inode interface. Please switch from
> iget to iget_locked and you can handle this case without ever inserting the
> "bad" inode into the inode hash.
Sorry, I do not understand your proposal. Could you please explain your idea in
more details?
thank you,
Vasily Averin
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