Re: [PATCH v2] hfsplus: avoid crash on failed block map free

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On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:50:53 +0400
Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 14:34 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > 
> > The code is missing a flush_dcache_page()?  We should have one in there
> > after the CPU has modified userspace-mappable page contents.
> > 
> 
> Yes, I think your comment is precious. But I feel a necessity to analyze
> hfsplus driver code more deeply for proper fix of this issue. An
> userspace-mappable page content is the main use-case for such fix. But
> it exists the multi CPUs use-case. So, I need to think about correctness
> of hfsplus driver for such use-case also, I think.  
> 
> > 
> > btw, I still have question marks over your earlier patches:
> > 
> > hfsplus-add-on-disk-layout-declarations-related-to-attributes-tree.patch
> > hfsplus-add-functionality-of-manipulating-by-records-in-attributes-tree.patch
> > hfsplus-rework-functionality-of-getting-setting-and-deleting-of-extended-attributes.patch
> > hfsplus-add-support-of-manipulation-by-attributes-file.patch
> > hfsplus-add-support-of-manipulation-by-attributes-file-checkpatch-fixes.patch
> > hfsplus-code-style-fixes-reworked-support-of-extended-attributes.patch
> > 
> > Christoph sounded unhappy, but the review discussion petered out?
> > 
> 
> So, as you can see the discussion revives again. :-) And I need to
> familiarize with implementation of xattrs in JFS before to answer again.
> I had objection that we need to remember about using HFS+ volumes as
> under Linux as under Mac OS X. Maybe, JFS implementation of xattrs to
> change my vision.

I'm still unclear where we stand with these patches.  Which if any of
these should I merge?

Thanks.

hfsplus-avoid-crash-on-failed-block-map-free.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hfsplus-avoid-crash-on-failed-block-map-free.patch

hfsplus-add-osx-prefix-for-handling-namespace-of-mac-os-x-extended-attributes.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hfsplus-add-osx-prefix-for-handling-namespace-of-mac-os-x-extended-attributes.patch

hfsplus-add-on-disk-layout-declarations-related-to-attributes-tree.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hfsplus-add-on-disk-layout-declarations-related-to-attributes-tree.patch

hfsplus-add-functionality-of-manipulating-by-records-in-attributes-tree.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hfsplus-add-functionality-of-manipulating-by-records-in-attributes-tree.patch

hfsplus-rework-functionality-of-getting-setting-and-deleting-of-extended-attributes.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hfsplus-rework-functionality-of-getting-setting-and-deleting-of-extended-attributes.patch

hfsplus-add-support-of-manipulation-by-attributes-file.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hfsplus-add-support-of-manipulation-by-attributes-file.patch

hfsplus-rework-processing-errors-in-hfsplus_free_extents.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hfsplus-rework-processing-errors-in-hfsplus_free_extents.patch

hfsplus-rework-processing-of-hfs_btree_write-returned-error.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hfsplus-rework-processing-of-hfs_btree_write-returned-error.patch

hfsplus-add-error-message-for-the-case-of-failure-of-sync-fs-in-delayed_sync_fs-method.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hfsplus-add-error-message-for-the-case-of-failure-of-sync-fs-in-delayed_sync_fs-method.patch

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