On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:22:23PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Hopefully this will make reiser4 stable code again. Or at least, a lot more stable than v3 (or other FSes) was when it went in....
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans Reiser
>
> From: Vladimir Saveliev <[email protected]>
>
> This patch contains 4 reiser4 bug fixes:
> - missing long term lock unlock on read' error handling code path is added
> - truncate_inode_pages is now called with embedded mapping.
> It is needed to deal properly with block device special files.
> - copy_to_user might be called for more bytes than was prefaulted with fault_in_pages_writeable.
> That caused undesirable major page faults.
> - readdir bug similar to the previous one:
> call to filldir might lead to deadlock due to major page fault.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Saveliev <[email protected]>
>
>
>
> diff -puN fs/reiser4/super_ops.c~reiser4-one-line-fixes fs/reiser4/super_ops.c
> --- linux-2.6.18-rc-mm2/fs/reiser4/super_ops.c~reiser4-one-line-fixes 2006-07-19 16:25:49.000000000 +0400
> +++ linux-2.6.18-rc-mm2-vs/fs/reiser4/super_ops.c 2006-07-19 16:25:49.000000000 +0400
> @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static void reiser4_delete_inode(struct
> fplug->delete_object(inode);
> }
>
> - truncate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0);
> + truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
Where do you reset i_mapping to be different from i_data? It is a valid
thing to do in theory (that's why we have those different fields), but in
practice most usages I've seen are bogus.
(And yes, this is not a personal attack again you, just a normal review)
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