On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 11:50:40PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > WTF is ext4_symlink() doing in case of long symlinks? Look: > drop_nlink(inode); > err = ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode); > ext4_journal_stop(handle); > [write symlink body] > inc_nlink(inode); > err = ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode); > oh, I see... The comment above that re deadlocks and inability to do that > in a single transaction ;-/ > > OK, try this; that's equivalent to what they are doing and will not WARN_ON(); > I hadn't checked other filesystems for similar tricks yet, so this has a good > chance of being incomplete. ... and sure enough, ext3 has the same piece of fun. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
