On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:31:40AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > /* > * The directory inode may have gone through rmdir by now. But > * the inode itself and its blocks are still allocated (we hold > - * a reference to the inode so it didn't go through > - * ext4_evict_inode()) and so we are safe to flush metadata > - * blocks and the inode. > + * a reference to the inode via its dentry), so it didn't go > + * through ext4_evict_inode()) and so we are safe to flush > + * metadata blocks and the inode. > */ > ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping); Just realized that in this comment, the closing parenthesis I added after "dentry" shouldn't be there. Ted, feel free to fix this if you're so inclined. - Eric