On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:23:56PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 08/06/2010 02:52 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > By queuing the io end on the unwritten workqueue before adding it
> > to our inode's list of completed IOs, I think we run the risk
> > of the work getting completed, and the IO freed, before we try
> > to add it to the inode's i_completed_io_list.
> >
> > It should be safe to add it to the inode's list of completed
> > IOs, and -then- queue it for completion, I think.
>
> Ping? would be good to fix this race, this has jiaying's ack too.
Added to the ext4 patch queue, thanks for the ping.
- Ted
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