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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix race between ext4_sync_parent() and rename()
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 20:34:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200522033437.GA895@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200506183140.541194-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>

On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:31:40AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>  		/*
>  		 * The directory inode may have gone through rmdir by now. But
>  		 * the inode itself and its blocks are still allocated (we hold
> -		 * a reference to the inode so it didn't go through
> -		 * ext4_evict_inode()) and so we are safe to flush metadata
> -		 * blocks and the inode.
> +		 * a reference to the inode via its dentry), so it didn't go
> +		 * through ext4_evict_inode()) and so we are safe to flush
> +		 * metadata blocks and the inode.
>  		 */
>  		ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);

Just realized that in this comment, the closing parenthesis I added after
"dentry" shouldn't be there.  Ted, feel free to fix this if you're so inclined.

- Eric

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-22  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-06 18:31 [PATCH] ext4: fix race between ext4_sync_parent() and rename() Eric Biggers
2020-05-09 12:30 ` Sasha Levin
2020-05-15 19:14 ` Eric Biggers
2020-05-22  3:34 ` Eric Biggers [this message]

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