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    [GFS2] Journaled file write/unstuff bug · 8fb68595
    Robert Peterson authored
    
    
    This patch is for bugzilla bug 283162, which uncovered a number of
    bugs pertaining to writing to files that have the journaled bit on.
    These bugs happen most often when writing to the meta_fs because
    the files are always journaled.  So operations like gfs2_grow were
    particularly vulnerable, although many of the problems could be
    recreated with normal files after setting the journaled bit on.
    The problems fixed are:
    
    -GFS2 wasn't ever writing unstuffed journaled data blocks to their
     in-place location on disk. Now it does.
    
    -If you unmounted too quickly after doing IO to a journaled file,
     GFS2 was crashing because you would discard a buffer whose bufdata
     was still on the active items list.  GFS2 now deals with this
     gracefully.
    
    -GFS2 was losing track of the bufdata for journaled data blocks,
     and it wasn't getting freed, causing an error when you tried to
     unmount the module.  GFS2 now frees all the bufdata structures.
    
    -There was a memory corruption occurring because GFS2 wrote
     twice as many log entries for journaled buffers.
    
    -It was occasionally trying to write journal headers in buffers
     that weren't currently mapped.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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