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From: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ufs: ufs_trunc_indirect: infinite cycle
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 15:47:51 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060514114751.GA6215@rain.homenetwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060514024752.2d666443.akpm@osdl.org>

On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 02:47:52AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> wrote:
> >
> > The situation the same: in ufs_trunc_(not direct),
> >  we read block,
> >  check if count of links to it is equal to one, 
> >  if so we finish cycle, if not continue.
> >  Because of "count of links" always >=2 this operation cause 
> >  infinite cycle and hang up the kernel.
> 
> okay, but do we know what that code which you removed was actually intended
> to do?
> 
I suppose it wait untill all range of buffers, which used by 
"inode" will be freed. "vmtruncate" should care about
this.

> Do you know whether 2.4 kernels exhibit the same bug?  
I suppose 2.4 doesn't affected, because of "sb_get_hash_table"
(analog of sb_find_get_block in 2.6) use "get_bh" only once,
so b_count equal to 1 if nobody used it.


-- 
/Evgeniy


      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-14 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-14  8:18 [PATCH 1/3] ufs: ufs_trunc_indirect: infinite cycle Evgeniy Dushistov
2006-05-14  9:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-14 11:47   ` Evgeniy Dushistov [this message]

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