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Prevent data corruption in logfs_rewrite_block() 

The comment was correct, so make the code match the comment.  As the
new comment indicates, we might be able to do a little less work.  But
for the current -rc series let's keep it simple and just fix the bug.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
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Joern Engel 2010-03-27 09:56:58 +01:00
parent 6f2e9e6a95
commit 1932191726
1 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions
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fs/logfs/readwrite.c
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@ -1594,7 +1594,6 @@ int logfs_delete(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
return ret;
}
/* Rewrite cannot mark the inode dirty but has to write it immediatly. */
int logfs_rewrite_block(struct inode *inode, u64 bix, u64 ofs,
gc_level_t gc_level, long flags)
{
@ -1611,6 +1610,18 @@ int logfs_rewrite_block(struct inode *inode, u64 bix, u64 ofs,
if (level != 0)
alloc_indirect_block(inode, page, 0);
err = logfs_write_buf(inode, page, flags);
if (!err && shrink_level(gc_level) == 0) {
/* Rewrite cannot mark the inode dirty but has to
* write it immediatly.
* Q: Can't we just create an alias for the inode
* instead? And if not, why not?
*/
if (inode->i_ino == LOGFS_INO_MASTER)
logfs_write_anchor(inode->i_sb);
else {
err = __logfs_write_inode(inode, flags);
}
}
}
logfs_put_write_page(page);
return err;