Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: remove mb_groups before tearing buddy_cache

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On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 04:36:14PM -0700, Salman Qazi wrote:
> We can't have references held on pages in the s_buddy_cache while we are
> trying to truncate its pages and put the inode.  All the pages must be
> gone before we reach clear_inode.  This can only be gauranteed if we
> can prevent new users from grabbing references to s_buddy_cache's pages.
> 
> The original bug can be reproduced and the bug fix can be verified by:
> 
> while true; do mount -t ext4 /dev/ram0 /export/hda3/ram0; \
> 	umount /export/hda3/ram0; done &
> 
> while true; do cat /proc/fs/ext4/ram0/mb_groups; done
> 
> Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

						- Ted
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