On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:43:48AM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Commit fa77dcfafeaa6bc73293c646bfc3d5192dcf0be2 introduces block bitmap
> checksum calculation into ext4_new_inode() in the case that block group
> was uninitialized. However we brelse() the bitmap buffer before we
> attempt to checksum it so we have no guarantee that the buffer is still
> there.
> 
> Fix this by releasing the buffer after the possible checksum
> computation.

Looks ok, so:
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>

That IBM fellow is gone. ;)

--D
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> ---
>  fs/ext4/ialloc.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
> index 3a100e7..c7efa88 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
> @@ -762,7 +762,6 @@ got:
>  
>               BUFFER_TRACE(block_bitmap_bh, "dirty block bitmap");
>               err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, NULL, block_bitmap_bh);
> -             brelse(block_bitmap_bh);
>  
>               /* recheck and clear flag under lock if we still need to */
>               ext4_lock_group(sb, group);
> @@ -775,6 +774,7 @@ got:
>                       ext4_group_desc_csum_set(sb, group, gdp);
>               }
>               ext4_unlock_group(sb, group);
> +             brelse(block_bitmap_bh);
>  
>               if (err)
>                       goto fail;
> -- 
> 1.7.7.6
> 
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