Re: [final fix] Re: Another ext2fs issue with 2.4.0-test8-final

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> Arrggh. Linus, buffer can be up-to-date, but unmapped. Marking it dirty is
> illegal, indeed. IOW, we need to (cut-and-paste alert)

Goopd catch. Yes, we should just do the mapped/uptodate checks in the
other order. Good call.

Linus

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Re: [final fix] Re: Another ext2fs issue with 2.4.0-test8-final

[Udo A. Steinberg]

Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> Urgh. Look for BUG in syslog (right before the oops). AFAICS it should be
> line 711, i.e.
> if (!buffer_mapped(bh))
> BUG();

Yes, I saw that.
I've applied the patch you posted and it appears to work well.
The same procedures that formerly broke it now run without any
problems.

Cheers,
Udo.
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