Hello!
Attached patch makes reiserfs BUG() when somebody tries to start a
larger transaction than it's allowed (currently the code just silently
deadlocks). I think this is a better behaviour. Can you please apply the
patch?
Honza
Make kernel BUG when someone tries to start a transaction which is too
large.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -rup linux-2.6.12-rc4/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
linux-2.6.12-rc4-reiserassert/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
--- linux-2.6.12-rc4/fs/reiserfs/journal.c Sat May 14 13:02:01 2005
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc4-reiserassert/fs/reiserfs/journal.c Sat May 14 13:21:43 2005
@@ -2631,6 +2631,8 @@ static int do_journal_begin_r(struct rei
int retval;
reiserfs_check_lock_depth(p_s_sb, "journal_begin") ;
+ if (nblocks > journal->j_trans_max)
+ BUG();
PROC_INFO_INC( p_s_sb, journal.journal_being );
/* set here for journal_join */
