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Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix superblock inprogress check

To: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix superblock inprogress check
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 01:08:12 -0700
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 03:39:27PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> >From inspection, the superblock sb_inprogress check is done in the
> verifier and triggered only for the primary superblock via a
> "bp->b_bn == XFS_SB_DADDR" check.
> 
> Unfortunately, the primary superblock is an uncached buffer, and
> hence it is configured by xfs_buf_read_uncached() with:
> 
>       bp->b_bn = XFS_BUF_DADDR_NULL;  /* always null for uncached buffers */

Hmm, I wonder why we did that, it seems a bit counter intuitive.

But the patch itself looks fine,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

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