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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	Wayne Whitney <whitney@math.berkeley.edu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [OOPS 2.5.5-dj2] ext3 BUG in do_get_write_access()
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:15:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <259120000.1015013734@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020301194155.H2682@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202281703130.4893-100000@mf1.private> <20020301194155.H2682@redhat.com>



On Friday, March 01, 2002 07:41:55 PM +0000 "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> wrote:

> In this particular case, I think I'll just have to relax the assertion
> and cause it to printk instead of BUG()ing, because I don't want to
> lose the protection of this test entirely.  
> 
> I'd really like to be able to detect such direct buffered-io
> "interference" from user-space, though, so that I could preserve the
> BUG() in cases where ext3 is getting this wrong internally.  I'll look
> at that --- I may be able to achieve it through ext3's existing
> metadata flags.

Do I misunderstand the assertion?  It seems to be saying:

'this buffer has been written out of order.  If we were to crash 
now, it will result in FS corruption'.
BUG()

If so, a printk alone might be better, since it would give the FS
the chance to put the correct data there anyway.

-chris




      reply	other threads:[~2002-03-01 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-01  1:19 [OOPS 2.5.5-dj2] ext3 BUG in do_get_write_access() Wayne Whitney
2002-03-01 18:59 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-03-01 19:41 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-03-01 20:15   ` Chris Mason [this message]

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