This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled

     Subject: jbd2 commit: fix transaction dropping

to the 2.6.22-stable tree.  Its filename is

     jbd2-commit-fix-transaction-dropping.patch

A git repo of this tree can be found at 
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Sun Jul 15 23:37:38 2007

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:37:20 -0700
Subject: jbd2 commit: fix transaction dropping
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dev@openvz.org, jack@suse.cz, cebbert@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Message-ID: [ref]


From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

We have to check that also the second checkpoint list is non-empty before
dropping the transaction.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <redacted>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff -puN fs/jbd2/commit.c~jbd2-commit-fix-transaction-dropping fs/jbd2/commit.c

--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c~jbd2-commit-fix-transaction-dropping
+++ a/fs/jbd2/commit.c

@@ -896,7 +896,8 @@ restart_loop:
 	journal->j_committing_transaction = NULL;
 	spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 
-	if (commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_list == NULL) {
+	if (commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_list == NULL &&
+	    commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_io_list == NULL) {
 		__jbd2_journal_drop_transaction(journal, commit_transaction);
 	} else {
 		if (journal->j_checkpoint_transactions == NULL) {

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Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@suse.cz are

queue-2.6.22/jbd-commit-fix-transaction-dropping.patch
queue-2.6.22/jbd2-commit-fix-transaction-dropping.patch