On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 09:19:07PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote: > From: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@xxxxxxxxxx> > > After applied this commit (8e4061cb), we will get a warning from > ext4_truncate when i_mutex isn't taken. Here the assumption is that > i_mutex should be taken when we do a truncation. In ext4_symlink we > could need to call ext4_truncate to trim some blocks beyond i_size, but > the i_mutex isn't taken. Hmm, and this is why I added the warning. Even after looking your patch, I'm having trouble finding the codepath that results in ext4_truncate() getting called from __page_symlink(). Can you send the stack trace from the WARN_ON, just so I can see what I missed? Thanks, - Ted -- 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
