From: Nick Piggin Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:07:47 +0000 (+0200) Subject: fs: remove incorrect I_NEW warnings X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc1~375^2~34 X-Git-Url: http://bbs.cooldavid.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=545b9fd3d737afc0bb5203b1e79194a471605acd;p=net-next-2.6.git 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 Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index e0fb2e78959..efcedb6d9cb 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/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) &&