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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-01-23 00:31:06 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-01-23 00:31:06 -0800
commit51c24aaacaea90c8e87f1dec75a2ac7622b593f8 (patch)
tree9f54936c87764bef75e97395cb56b7d1e0df24c6 /fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
parent4276e47e2d1c85a2477caf0d22b91c4f2377fba8 (diff)
parent6be325719b3e54624397e413efd4b33a997e55a3 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c17
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index ce278b3ae7fc..ef77fd88c8e3 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -2841,8 +2841,8 @@ xfs_iflush(
mp = ip->i_mount;
/*
- * If the inode isn't dirty, then just release the inode
- * flush lock and do nothing.
+ * If the inode isn't dirty, then just release the inode flush lock and
+ * do nothing.
*/
if (xfs_inode_clean(ip)) {
xfs_ifunlock(ip);
@@ -2868,6 +2868,19 @@ xfs_iflush(
xfs_iunpin_wait(ip);
/*
+ * For stale inodes we cannot rely on the backing buffer remaining
+ * stale in cache for the remaining life of the stale inode and so
+ * xfs_itobp() below may give us a buffer that no longer contains
+ * inodes below. We have to check this after ensuring the inode is
+ * unpinned so that it is safe to reclaim the stale inode after the
+ * flush call.
+ */
+ if (xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_ISTALE)) {
+ xfs_ifunlock(ip);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /*
* This may have been unpinned because the filesystem is shutting
* down forcibly. If that's the case we must not write this inode
* to disk, because the log record didn't make it to disk!
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