linux-kernel - Re: hugetlb locking bug.

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Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:26:00 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	William Irwin <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: hugetlb locking bug.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 02:19:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:57 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>
> >> Because it doesn't use iget or unlock_new_inode, but rather calls
> >> directly into new_inode(). ?It and other filesystems not using
> >> unlock_new_inode will need a local copy of that logic.
> >
> > Is there a sane reason they do their own magic, and thus need a copy of
> > the logic, instead of using the generic code that already has it?
> 
> Hmm. That all seems to be just an oversight.
> 
> Does this trivial one-liner work?
> 
> (Warning: whitespace damage and TOTALLY UNTESTED)

It'll get rid of the lockdep spat in favour of a WARN_ON, given that
inodes from new_inode() never have I_NEW set.

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