Re: [PATCH] Ext4: wait for log to commit when putting super V2.

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On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:00:44PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> Update:
> -Instead of adding new logic to wait for the journal to commit, just move the
> cleanup code below the journal destruction which does the same thing.  Thanks to
> Eric Sandeen for the suggestion.
> 
> There is a problem where a transaction will be committing while we're unmounting
> the filesystem and you will get a panic because EXT4_SB(sb)->s_group_info has
> been kfree'ed in ext4_put_super.  The commit code does the callback for the
> mballoc stuff to release free'ed blocks in the transaction and panic's trying to
> access s_group_info.  The fix is to wait for the transaction to finish
> committing before we start cleaning up the mballoc stuff.  This patch hasn't
> been tested yet, but its an obvious fix.

Added to the ext4 patch queue, thanks.

						- Ted
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