linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "Btrfs: don't delay inode ref updates during log, replay"

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <348f2119-0eca-9bc9-4def-62bda459683e@suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:17:30 +0100
From:   Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:     Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
Cc:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "Btrfs: don't delay inode ref updates during log,
 replay"

On 12/03/2016, 04:21 AM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> This reverts commit 644d10716875b24388680925d6c7502420987bfe.
> 
> The original patch for mainline, 6f8960541b1 (Btrfs: don't delay
> inode ref updates during log replay) lists 1d52c78afbb (Btrfs: try
> not to ENOSPC on log replay) as the only pre-3.18 dependency, but it
> also depends on 67de11769bd (Btrfs: introduce the delayed inode ref
> deletion for the single link inode), which was introduced in 3.14
> and isn't in 3.12.y.
> 
> The -stable commit added the check to btrfs_delayed_update_inode,
> which may look similar to btrfs_delayed_delete_inode_ref, but it's
> only superficial.  The tops of both functions handle typical

Thanks, now applied after dealing with the pile of patches collected
during Christmas.

-- 
js
suse labs