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fs: remove incorrect I_NEW warnings

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@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Nick Piggin před 16 roky
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1 změnil soubory, kde provedl 0 přidání a 2 odebrání
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      fs/fs-writeback.c

+ 0 - 2
fs/fs-writeback.c

@@ -289,7 +289,6 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	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, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	}
 
 	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) &&