On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 05:35:38PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > This was discovered by the addition of a new ext4 debugging assertion
> > which checked to make sure i_mutex was locked before calling
> > ext4_truncate().
>
> I doubt that it's worth doing (inode has just been created and
> nobody else should have references to it - it's not fully set up, after
> all)...
Well, my other option is to drop the assert in ext4_truncate(), which
I thought was a good thing from a perspective of defensive
programming, or to grab the mutex in ext4_symlink() which is what
calles __page_symlink().
Would you prefer that we take the mutex in ext4_symlink() instead?
- Ted
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