Re: is wait_on_buffer needed after getblk?

[Alan Cox]

> Some times ago I found a race in buffer code - many filesystems do
> getblk();mark_buffer_uptodate(); and then write to buffer. If the buffer
> is under read i/o, written data are lost.

Andrea certainly submitted me some 2.2.x patches for ext2fs for this that I
merged. I don't know how it stands for 2.3.x