Some filesystems can call in to sync an inode that is still in the
I_NEW state (eg. ext family, when mounted with -osync). This is OK
because the filesystem has sole access to the new inode, so it can
modify i_state without races (because no other thread should be
modifying it, by definition of I_NEW). Ie. a false positive, so
remove the warnings.
The races are described here 7ef0d7377cb287e08f3ae94cebc919448e1f5dff,
which is also where the warnings were introduced.
Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/fs/fs-writeback.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -289,7 +289,6 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode,
int ret;
BUG_ON(inode->i_state & I_SYNC);
- WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_NEW);
/* Set I_SYNC, reset I_DIRTY */
dirty = inode->i_state & I_DIRTY;
@@ -314,7 +313,6 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode,
}
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
- WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_NEW);
inode->i_state &= ~I_SYNC;
if (!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING)) {
if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) &&
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