linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] f2fs: remove dirty inode pages in error path

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Message-ID: <f51439e8-ea3b-836f-b967-d0e1446e952b@huawei.com>
Date:   Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:02:02 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] f2fs: remove dirty inode pages in error path

On 2016/9/24 5:11, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> When getting EIO while handling orphan inodes, we can get some dirty node
> pages. Then, f2fs_write_node_pages() called by iput(node_inode) will try
> to flush node pages. But in this case, we should prevent to do that, since
> we will try again from the start.

We are protected since we set SBI_POR_DOING flag in sb, so we are safe now?

Thanks,