Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:19:29 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2_get_block() version 2 |
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Dave Hansen wrote: > > Alexander Viro wrote: > > Denied. You can trivially do that in ext2_read_inode() and ext2_new_inode(). > Good point. That makes it much easier. > > > ext2 patches _MUST_ get testing in 2.5 before they can go into 2.4. At > > the very least a month, preferably - two. Until then consider them vetoed > > for 2.4, no matter how BKL brigade feels about their crusade. > ChangeSet@1.290 2002-02-11 21:26:50-08:00 viro@psu.edu > > So, it has been almost a month. Do you plan to port these changes back > to 2.4 yourself? >
2.5.5's ext2 has an SMP race, probably in get_block, which results in the freeing of already-free buffers. That has not yet been found and fixed.
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