> On 16/10/06 16:51 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:27:10 +0200
> >Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Fuse didn't always call i_size_write() with i_mutex held which caused
> >> rare hangs on SMP/32bit.
> >
> >Yes, that is a bit of a trap. I'll maintain a patch in -mm which spits a
> >warning if i_size_write() is called without i_mutex held.
> >
>
> >+void i_size_write(struct inode *inode, loff_t i_size)
> >+{
> >+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex));
>
>
> Miklos' patch would generate this warning because he uses the spinlock
> inside struct fuse_conn to synchronize the write:
Yes, this will cause a false alarm for FUSE, but it may still be
useful to find similar bugs in other filesystems.
Miklos
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