This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled Subject: jbd2 commit: fix transaction dropping to the 2.6.22-stable tree. Its filename is jbd2-commit-fix-transaction-dropping.patch A git repo of this tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary >From stable-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sun Jul 15 23:37:38 2007 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:37:20 -0700 Subject: jbd2 commit: fix transaction dropping To: torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: dev@xxxxxxxxxx, jack@xxxxxxx, cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, stable@xxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <200707160637.l6G6bKPk013984@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> We have to check that also the second checkpoint list is non-empty before dropping the transaction. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> diff -puN fs/jbd2/commit.c~jbd2-commit-fix-transaction-dropping fs/jbd2/commit.c --- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c~jbd2-commit-fix-transaction-dropping +++ a/fs/jbd2/commit.c @@ -896,7 +896,8 @@ restart_loop: journal->j_committing_transaction = NULL; spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); - if (commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_list == NULL) { + if (commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_list == NULL && + commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_io_list == NULL) { __jbd2_journal_drop_transaction(journal, commit_transaction); } else { if (journal->j_checkpoint_transactions == NULL) { _ _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are queue-2.6.22/jbd-commit-fix-transaction-dropping.patch queue-2.6.22/jbd2-commit-fix-transaction-dropping.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html