Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:31:10 +0400 | From | Vasily Averin <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH ext3/ext4] orphan list corruption due bad inode |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:11:12AM +0400, Vasily Averin wrote: >>>> return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); >>>> } >>> Seems reasonable. So this prevents the bad inodes from getting onto the >>> orphan list in the first place? >> make_bad_inode() is called from ext3_read_inode() that is called from iget() only. > > Which is artefact of using the read_inode interface. Please switch from > iget to iget_locked and you can handle this case without ever inserting the > "bad" inode into the inode hash.
Sorry, I do not understand your proposal. Could you please explain your idea in more details?
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