inode having been discarded already. Whether this can actually ever
happen is unclear however so it is worth waiting until someone hits
the problem.
- - Enable the code for setting the NT4 compatibility flag when we start
- making NTFS 1.2 specific modifications.
+
+2.1.29 - Fix a deadlock at mount time.
+
+ - During mount the VFS holds s_umount lock on the superblock. So when
+ we try to empty the journal $LogFile contents by calling
+ ntfs_attr_set() when the machine does not have much memory and the
+ journal is large ntfs_attr_set() results in the VM trying to balance
+ dirty pages which in turn tries to that the s_umount lock and thus we
+ get a deadlock. The solution is to not use ntfs_attr_set() and
+ instead do the zeroing by hand at the block level rather than page
+ cache level.
+ - Fix sparse warnings.
+
+2.1.28 - Fix a deadlock.
+
+ - Fix deadlock in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(). Thanks to Sergey
+ Vlasov for the report and detailed analysis of the deadlock. The fix
+ involved getting rid of ntfs_put_inode() altogether and hence NTFS no
+ longer has a ->put_inode super operation.
2.1.27 - Various bug fixes and cleanups.
- Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_index_inode() where we
forgot to update a temporary variable so loading index inodes which
have an index allocation attribute failed.
+ - Add a missing call to flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in
+ fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().
+ - Handle the recently introduced -ENAMETOOLONG return value from
+ fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_nlstoucs() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
+ - Semaphore to mutex conversion. (Ingo Molnar)
2.1.26 - Minor bug fixes and updates.
own locking so it does not matter if the vfs inode is locked.
- Fix bug in mft record writing where we forgot to set the device in
the buffers when mapping them after the VM had discarded them.
- Thanks to Martin MOKREJŠ for the bug report.
+ Thanks to Martin MOKREJÅ for the bug report.
2.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated
address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also
removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch.
- - Fix a bug where kfree() was used insted of ntfs_free().
+ - Fix a bug where kfree() was used instead of ntfs_free().
- Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of
vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers.
- Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode.