On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:54:12PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > > On Monday, October 15, 2001 12:35:01 AM +0200 Erik Tews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I saw that there is a reiserfs-fix in 2.4.12-ac2. What kind of bug is > > that? I did not notice anybody here talking about a buffer-problem. > > > > This is a bug that Vladimir found. In the pure linus kernel, this code > works (non reiserfs specific). > > lock_buffer(bh) ; > bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_io_async ; > submit_bh(bh) ; > > In alan's kernel, end_buffer_io_async does a put_bh on the buffer head, > leading to errors about brelsing buffers already free, and general > corruption if you don't get_bh(bh) before calling submit_bh. Linus kernels > used to work this way too, but the change hasn't been merged into -ac yet. > > Anyway, somewhere during 2.4.10-ac we merged a change that used the linus > style async end io handlers, there were a few reports over the last few > weeks.
Do you know if this bug is present in 2.4.10-ac10 too? I was just going to install this kernel in my school, because quota-patches are available, and this kernel has a relatively new lvm-version.
