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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: dedekind@infradead.org, miklos@szeredi.hu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS bugfix: two read_inode() calles without clear_inode() call between
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 22:35:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115242507.12012.394.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050504130450.7c90a422.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 13:04 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> This sounds more like a bug in the iget() caller to me.
> 
> Question is: if the inode has zero refcount and is unhashed then how
> did the caller get its sticky paws onto the inode* in the first place?
> 
> If the caller had saved a copy of the inode* in local storage then the
> caller should have taken a ref against the inode.
> 
> If the caller had just looked up the inode via hastable lookup via
> iget_whatever() then again the caller will have a ref on the inode.
> 
> So.  Please tell us more about how the caller got into this situation.

I could explain in detail how JFFS2 garbage collection works, moving log
entries out of the way by calling iget() on the inode to which they
belong.... or I could just say "NFS".

-- 
dwmw2



  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-04 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-27 13:15 [PATCH] VFS bugfix: two read_inode() calles without clear_inode() call between Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-27 13:42 ` Jan Harkes
2005-04-27 14:22 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-27 15:57 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-27 16:19   ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
     [not found]     ` <E1DQqZu-0002Rf-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
2005-04-28  7:32       ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-28  7:34         ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-04 12:17           ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-05-04 20:04             ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-04 21:35               ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2005-05-04 21:58                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-05  9:10                   ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-05 16:18                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-06 11:08                       ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 14:45               ` Synchronous FAT Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-06-14  1:06                 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-06-14 12:16                   ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-06-15  1:19                     ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-04-28  7:41         ` [PATCH] VFS bugfix: two read_inode() calles without clear_inode() call between Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-28  7:47           ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
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2005-04-19 12:38 Artem B. Bityuckiy

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