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From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mfedyk@matchmail.com
Subject: Re: Suspected bug infilesystems (UFS,ADFS,BEFS,BFS,ReiserFS) related to sector_t being unsigned, advice requested
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:35:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401062135.i06LZAOY005429@car.linuxhacker.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040106174650.GD1882@matchmail.com

Hello!

Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
MF> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:28:34PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>> --- linux-2.6.1-rc1-mm2-orig/fs/reiserfs/inode.c        2004-01-06 01:33:08.000000000 +0100
>> +++ linux-2.6.1-rc1-mm2/fs/reiserfs/inode.c     2004-01-06 12:16:16.000000000 +0100
>> @@ -574,11 +574,6 @@ int reiserfs_get_block (struct inode * i
>>      th.t_trans_id = 0 ;
>>      version = get_inode_item_key_version (inode);
>> 
>> -    if (block < 0) {
>> -       reiserfs_write_unlock(inode->i_sb);
>> -       return -EIO;
>> -    }
>> -
MF> Did you check the locking after this is removed?

Locking should be fine.
As I remember, we take this lock near reiserfs_get_block() entrance,
and then drop it on exit.

MF> Maybe after the sector_t merges, this code covered a case that is left open
MF> now...

This code was never executing anyway.

Bye,
    Oleg

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-06 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-05 23:20 Suspected bug infilesystems (UFS,ADFS,BEFS,BFS,ReiserFS) related to sector_t being unsigned, advice requested Jesper Juhl
2004-01-06  8:51 ` Hans Reiser
2004-01-06 11:28   ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-06 17:46     ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-06 21:35       ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2004-01-06 22:25         ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-06 23:37         ` Hans Reiser
2004-01-06 23:53           ` Oleg Drokin
2004-01-07  9:26             ` Hans Reiser
2004-01-07 10:01               ` Oleg Drokin
2004-01-07 11:00                 ` Hans Reiser
2004-01-07 12:08                   ` Oleg Drokin
2004-01-07 12:17                     ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-07 12:27                       ` Oleg Drokin
2004-01-07 17:45                 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-13 16:26                 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-06 22:43       ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-06 22:58         ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-06 23:26         ` Hans Reiser
2004-01-07  0:46           ` Jesper Juhl

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