Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] probably bug in current ext3/jbd

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Wed, 21 May 2003 09:59:21 -0700


Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru> wrote:
>
> yes, we may protect it by such lock, but this lock have to be held all time
> ext3_new_block() uses some b_committed_data because last one may be freed
> during current ext3_new_block(). I don't think it's good.

Take a closer look - I don't think it'll be too messy, and certainly the
hold times will not be a problem.

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