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From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
To: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <JBacik@fusionio.com>,
	"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: fix all callers of read_tree_block
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:07:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130424130701.GG2631@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130424081747.GF19283@liubo.jp.oracle.com>

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:17:48AM -0600, Liu Bo wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 02:20:22PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > We kept leaking extent buffers when mounting a broken file system and it turns
> > out it's because not everybody uses read_tree_block properly.  You need to check
> > and make sure the extent_buffer is uptodate before you use it.  This patch fixes
> > everybody who calls read_tree_block directly to make sure they check that it is
> > uptodate and free it and return an error if it is not.  With this we no longer
> > leak EB's when things go horribly wrong.  Thanks,
> 
> What about hook the check into read_tree_block()?
> 
> That way we can save much efforts.

Because other people do other things when it gets back from read_tree_block(),
the readahead code and the search ahead code to name a few.  Thanks,

Josef

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-24 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-23 18:20 [PATCH] Btrfs: fix all callers of read_tree_block Josef Bacik
2013-04-24  8:17 ` Liu Bo
2013-04-24 13:07   ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2013-04-24 15:50 ` David Sterba
2013-07-30 15:11 ` Alex Lyakas
2013-07-30 15:40   ` Josef Bacik

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