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From: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: ext4_orphan_add() remove unnecessary comments
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:50:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1309272617-30943-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> (raw)

The comment from Al Viro about possible race in the ext4_orphan_add() is
not justified. There is no race possible as we always have either i_mutex
locked, or the inode can not be referenced from outside hence the
J_ASSERS should not be hit from the reason described in comment.

This commit replaces it with notion that we are holding i_mutex so it
should not be possible for i_nlink to be changed while waiting for
s_orphan_lock.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
---
 fs/ext4/namei.c |   17 +++++------------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index b754b77..8dde5ab 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1989,18 +1989,11 @@ int ext4_orphan_add(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
 	if (!list_empty(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan))
 		goto out_unlock;
 
-	/* Orphan handling is only valid for files with data blocks
-	 * being truncated, or files being unlinked. */

             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-28 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-28 14:50 Lukas Czerner [this message]
2011-07-11 22:47 ` [PATCH] ext4: ext4_orphan_add() remove unnecessary comments Ted Ts'o

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