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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [XFS] Fix double free of inode
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:13:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090315151340.GA7145@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237116342-25701-3-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:25:42PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> If we fail to initialise the VFS inode in inode_init_always(),
> it will call ->delete_inode internally resulting in the inode being
> freed. Hence we need to delay the call to inode_init_always()
> until after the XFS inode is sufficient set up to handle a
> call to ->delete_inode, and then if that fails do not touch
> the inode again at all as it has been freed.

Looks good, but the changelog should mention the setting of the
I_NEW bit, too.


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

I suspect this should go into 2.6.29-stable after some testing, too.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-15 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-15 11:25 [PATCH 0/2, RESEND] [XFS] a couple of fixes Dave Chinner
2009-03-15 11:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] [XFS] Validate log feature fields correctly Dave Chinner
2009-03-15 15:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-03-16 10:49     ` Dave Chinner
2009-03-16 10:50       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-03-15 11:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] [XFS] Fix double free of inode Dave Chinner
2009-03-15 15:13   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-04-06 22:28 ` [PATCH 0/2, RESEND] [XFS] a couple of fixes Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-08  4:45   ` Felix Blyakher
2009-04-08 13:33     ` Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-15 10:52 [PATCH 0/2] " Dave Chinner
2009-03-15 10:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] [XFS] Fix double free of inode Dave Chinner

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