list_splice_init will make delalloc_inodes empty, but without a spinlock around, this may produce corrupted list head, accessed in many placess, The race window is very tight and nobody seems to have hit it so far. Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> --- fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c index 98b6a71..11dda73 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c @@ -2911,9 +2911,8 @@ static int btrfs_destroy_delalloc_inodes(struct btrfs_root *root) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&splice); - list_splice_init(&root->fs_info->delalloc_inodes, &splice); - spin_lock(&root->fs_info->delalloc_lock); + list_splice_init(&root->fs_info->delalloc_inodes, &splice); while (!list_empty(&splice)) { btrfs_inode = list_entry(splice.next, struct btrfs_inode, -- 1.7.5.2.353.g5df3e -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html