From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
cmm@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: Mark the buffer as unmapped before reading the next quota block
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:34:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090202103429.GB7145@duck.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea11fea30902020204t7a2db3a7tbf3f0b8d22b20cce@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon 02-02-09 15:34:27, Manish Katiyar wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> This is in continuation with the previous patch
> (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/20275/) . We also need to set the
> buffer as unmapped before reading the next block. I don't think quota
> files can have holes, but atleast for correctness, otherwise once we
> have read a block, tmp_bh is always mapped even for holes.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
> ---
> fs/ext2/super.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext2/super.c b/fs/ext2/super.c
> index da8bdea..b4e7633 100644
> --- a/fs/ext2/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext2/super.c
> @@ -1328,6 +1328,7 @@ static ssize_t ext2_quota_read(struct
> super_block *sb, int type, char *data,
> sb->s_blocksize - offset : toread;
>
> tmp_bh.b_state = 0;
> + clear_buffer_mapped(&tmp_bh);
I don't get this. When b_state is 0, then in particuler the buffer is not
mapped. So why clear the mapped bit explicitely?
> err = ext2_get_block(inode, blk, &tmp_bh, 0);
> if (err < 0)
> return err;
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-02 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 10:04 [PATCH] ext2: Mark the buffer as unmapped before reading the next quota block Manish Katiyar
2009-02-02 10:34 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2009-02-02 11:05 ` Manish Katiyar
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