[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH V3] ocfs2: xattr: fix inlined xattr reflink

[Joel Becker]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 12:17:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:40:42 -0700 Joel Becker <jlbec at evilplan.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 11:12:33AM +0800, Junxiao Bi wrote:
> > > 
> > > 4244         mutex_lock_nested(&new_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
> > > 4245         ret = ocfs2_inode_lock_nested(new_inode, &new_bh, 1,
> > > 4246                                       OI_LS_REFLINK_TARGET);
> > 
> > 	The i_mutex protects the VFS inode.  The ocfs2_inode_lock
> > protects against other nodes in the cluster.  new_oi->ip_lock protects
> > the ocfs2_inode_info specific stuff.
> > 	Reading a bit out of new_oi->ip_dyn_features is probably safe;
> > we are protected from inline data being converted to extents.  So I
> > suppose this isn't terribly different than xattr_ibody_init().
> 
> Was that a soggy ack?  :)

It was :-)  I've been trying to silence the niggles in the back of my
head.  But I think I comfortable.

Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec at evilplan.org>

> 

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