linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix bmap-vs-truncate race

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Message-ID: <20090331175451.GA19484@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:54:52 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix bmap-vs-truncate race

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:20:24PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm submitting this patch for 2.6.30 merge window.

Please not.  i_alloc_sem is really a horrible hack needed for a couple
filesystems only and we should not leak it into more generic code but
rather move the few instances into the filesystem.

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