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Re: TAKE 965636 - xfs_setfilesize panics on null xfs_inode

To: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TAKE 965636 - xfs_setfilesize panics on null xfs_inode
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 09:52:29 +0100
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:46:08PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:32:22AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:28:12PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> > > Handle null returned from xfs_vtoi() in xfs_setfilesize().
> > 
> > This doesn't make any sense at all.  xfs_inodes always live longer than
> > vnodes.  What's the backtrace of the problem you're seeing?
> 
> The I/O completion handlers are used by CXFS clients as well.
> Hence we can't assume that the vnode is backed by a xfs_inode....

Please switch them over to something different instead of crapping up
the code like this


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