[PATCH 36/37] xfs: flush outstanding buffers on log mount failure
Mark Tinguely
tinguely at sgi.com
Mon Apr 23 10:47:36 CDT 2012
On 04/23/12 00:59, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner<dchinner at redhat.com>
>
> When we fail to mount the log in xfs_mountfs(), we tear down all the
> infrastructure we have already allocated. However, the process of
> mounting the log may have progressed to the point of reading,
> caching and modifying buffers in memory. Hence before we can free
> all the infrastructure, we have to flush and remove all the buffers
> from memory.
>
> Problem first reported by Eric Sandeen, later a different incarnation
> was reported by Ben Myers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner at redhat.com>
> ---
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely at sgi.com>
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