From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] ext4: ext4_dx_add_entry should dirty directory
 metadata with the directory inode
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:13:24 -0400
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Cc: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:17:59PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> ext4_dx_add_entry manipulates bh2 and frames[0].bh, which are two buffer_heads
> that point to directory blocks assigned to the directory inode.  However, the
> function calls ext4_handle_dirty_metadata with the inode of the file that's
> being added to the directory, not the directory inode itself.  Therefore,
> correct the code to dirty the directory buffers with the directory inode, not
> the file inode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>

This has been accpeted into the ext4 tree already (git commit:
5930ea643 in the master branch)

						- Ted