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From: Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Review: prevent deadlock via async iput from xfs_iunpin
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:17:19 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159913839.32536.4.camel@edge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061003050654.GQ4695059@melbourne.sgi.com>

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 15:06 +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> In fixing the recent problems with inode use-after-free in
> xfs_iunpin, we introduced a new deadlock. When iput() is called, it
> can trigger new transactions on the inode if we are dropping the
> final reference. This is a bad thing to do from a xfslogd because it
> is theonly thread that can move the tail of the log forwards.

*nod*, sounds reasonable & your fix looks good to me, Dave.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-03 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-03  5:06 Review: prevent deadlock via async iput from xfs_iunpin David Chinner
2006-10-03 22:17 ` Nathan Scott [this message]

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