linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 08/24] e2fsck: fix inode coherency issue when iterating an inode's blocks

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:58:10 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/24] e2fsck: fix inode coherency issue when iterating
 an inode's blocks

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 03:53:11PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> When we're about to iterate the blocks of a block-map file, we need to
> write the inode out to disk if it's dirty because block_iterate3()
> will re-read the inode from disk.  (In practice this won't happen
> because nothing dirties block-mapped inodes before the iterate call,
> but we can program defensively).
> 
> More importantly, we need to re-read the inode after the iterate()
> operation because it's possible that mappings were changed (or erased)
> during the iteration.  If we then dirty or clear the inode, we'll
> mistakenly write the old inode values back out to disk!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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