Hello, On Thu 12-05-11 10:59:20, Allison Henderson wrote: > I wasnt sure if people were expecting a v2 for this one, but I > noticed the modified version of v1 was removed from the tree, so I > am assuming we needed v2? This one handles marking the buffer dirty > before calling do split to avoid the null pointer. It introduces a > little overhead, but the only other option would be to introduce a > new flag set to do_split. But if there's any one that would prefer > the flags to this solution, please let me know. Thx! :) The patch looks OK. Just please CC me next time - a) because ext3 needs a similar fix (added now) and b) because I was involved with the previous patch version. Thanks! Honza > Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > :100644 100644 3c7a06e... b754b77... M fs/ext4/namei.c > fs/ext4/namei.c | 6 ++++-- > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c > index 3c7a06e..b754b77 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c > @@ -1413,6 +1413,10 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, > struct dentry *dentry, > frame->at = entries; > frame->bh = bh; > bh = bh2; > + > + ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, frame->bh); > + ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, bh); > + > de = do_split(handle,dir, &bh, frame, &hinfo, &retval); > if (!de) { > /* > @@ -1421,8 +1425,6 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, > struct dentry *dentry, > * with corrupted filesystem. > */ > ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, dir); > - ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, frame->bh); > - ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, bh); > dx_release(frames); > return retval; > } > -- > 1.7.1 > > -- > 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 -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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