Re: [PATCH 5/9] xfs: reinitialise recycled VFS inode correctly

Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-08T09:33:52Z

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:24:17PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> Now that we keep certain on-disk information in the VFS inode rather
> than in a separate XFS specific stucture, we have to be careful of
> the VFS code clearing that information when we re-initialise
> reclaimable cached inodes during lookup. If we don't do this, then
> we lose critical information from the inode and that results in
> corruption being detected.

Might be worth to use future tense here? Or maybe just fold it
into the next patch.

Either way:

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