Re: 2.6.0-test4-mm3.1 oops with ext3 extended attributes on R/O filesystem
Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu
Date: 08/31/03
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:24:18 -0400
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:47:51 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> Thanks. It's a very straightforward bug; I'll fix it with the below patch.
Fix tested in -test4-mm4, program gets a proper '-EROFS', no signs of hanging
locks. Looks good from here, please push to appropriate maintainers..
> A wider question is whether we should have got this far into the filesystem
> code if the fs is mounted read-only. A check right up at the VFS
> setxattr() level might make sense.
Yes, I was a bit surprised at that as well...
> Regardless of that, this fix is needed because journal_start() could fail
> for other reasons.
Good point, and one I hadn't considered...
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