From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: generic_file_write change in 2.4.0-ac8
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:52:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23360000.979336325@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101121614150.20629-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
On Friday, January 12, 2001 04:30:44 PM -0500 Alexander Viro
<viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> This code for generic_file_write calls vmtruncate without i_sem held. Is
>> that intentional? It should cause problems for reiserfs at least...
>
> Erm... generic_file_write() grabs i_sem upon entry and drops it on exit.
> This call of vmtruncate() is deep inside the protected area.
>
Yup, I'm trying to track down a different problem, and saw what I wanted to
instead of what was really there. Sigh.
-chris
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2001-01-12 20:26 generic_file_write change in 2.4.0-ac8 Chris Mason
2001-01-12 21:30 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-12 21:52 ` Chris Mason [this message]
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