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From: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] probably bug in current ext3/jbd
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 00:58:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87el2ue8mv.fsf@gw.home.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1053377493.11943.32.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com> (Stephen C. Tweedie's message of "19 May 2003 21:51:33 +0100")


aha. now it's clear. thank you. I catched J_ASSERT(b_committed_data != NULL)
in ext3_free_blocks() with de-BKL'ed JBD. hence, my solution is to have a
tid journal_head indicating which transaction uses b_committed_data.

I don't want to look intrusive, but .. what do you think about new locking
schema I'm trying to implement?


>>>>> Stephen C Tweedie (SCT) writes:

 >> access for
 >> b_committed_data == NULL ?

 SCT> Not with BKL.  Without it, yes, that's definitely a risk, and you need
 SCT> some locking for the access to b_committed_data.  Without that, even if
 SCT> you keep the jh->b_committed_data field valid, you risk freeing the old
 SCT> copy that another thread is using.

 SCT> Cheers,
 SCT>  Stephen


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-19 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-18 17:21 [RFC] probably bug in current ext3/jbd Alex Tomas
2003-05-19 20:34 ` [Ext2-devel] " Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-05-20  0:46   ` Alex Tomas
2003-05-19 20:51     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-05-20  0:58       ` Alex Tomas [this message]
2003-05-20 16:06       ` Alex Tomas
2003-05-21 16:38         ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-21 20:45           ` Alex Tomas
2003-05-21 16:59             ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]               ` <m3brxwe2lr.fsf@lexa.home.net>
     [not found]                 ` <20030521103737.52eddeb3.akpm@digeo.com>
     [not found]                   ` <87n0hgc6s6.fsf@gw.home.net>
     [not found]                     ` <20030521105011.2d316baf.akpm@digeo.com>
     [not found]                       ` <87k7ckc5z2.fsf@gw.home.net>
     [not found]                         ` <20030521143140.3aaa86ba.akpm@digeo.com>
2003-05-23 11:08                           ` Alex Tomas
2003-05-23  8:49                             ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-23 12:49                               ` Alex Tomas
2003-05-23 11:20           ` [RFC] probably invalid accounting in jbd Alex Tomas
2003-05-23  8:26             ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-23 16:02               ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger

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