From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Initialize list properly
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:00:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090212220037.GG6922@mini-me.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234422331-32766-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:35:31PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> We need to initialize the list_head properly before we add
> them to the any list. Otherwise with list debug on we get
> list corruption warnings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Added to the ext4 patch queue with a slight adjustment in the patch
commit for readability issues:
When creating a new ext4_prealloc_space structure, we have to
initialize its list_head pointers before we add them to any prealloc
lists. Otherwise, with list debug enabled, we will get list
corruption warnings.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-12 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-10 17:06 next-20090210: list_del corruption (ext4) Alexander Beregalov
2009-02-12 7:05 ` [PATCH] ext4: Initialize list properly Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-02-12 22:00 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
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