Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:16:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:16:18 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:29514 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:16:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:16:03 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alexander Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. Message-ID: <20010426231603.A21873@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010426221109.E819@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:26:15PM -0700 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:26:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > What I'm saying above is that even without the wait_on_buffer ext2 can > > screwup itself because the splice happens after the buffer are just all > > uptodate so any "reader" (I mean any reader through ext2 not through > > block_dev) will never try to do a bread on that blocks before they're > > just zeroed and uptodate. > > I assume you meant "..can _not_ screw up itself..", otherwise the rest of yes, it was a typo sorry. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/