2.6.29-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Nick Piggin commit 545b9fd3d737afc0bb5203b1e79194a471605acd upstream. Some filesystems can call in to sync an inode that is still in the I_NEW state (eg. ext family, when mounted with -osync). This is OK because the filesystem has sole access to the new inode, so it can modify i_state without races (because no other thread should be modifying it, by definition of I_NEW). Ie. a false positive, so remove the warnings. The races are described here 7ef0d7377cb287e08f3ae94cebc919448e1f5dff, which is also where the warnings were introduced. Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -274,7 +274,6 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode, int ret; BUG_ON(inode->i_state & I_SYNC); - WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_NEW); /* Set I_SYNC, reset I_DIRTY */ dirty = inode->i_state & I_DIRTY; @@ -299,7 +298,6 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode, } spin_lock(&inode_lock); - WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_NEW); inode->i_state &= ~I_SYNC; if (!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING)) { if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) && -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/