# Re: \[PATCH\] ext4: Warn when page is dirtied without buffers

- From: Theodore Ts'o \<tytso@mit.edu\>
- Date: 2016-12-01 16:47:28 
- List: linux-ext4
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-ext4/2016/12/13428293
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-ext4/2016/11/13428261/t.md

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On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 03:01:42PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Warn when a page is dirtied without buffers (as that will likely lead to
> a crash in ext4_writepages()) or when it gets newly dirtied without the
> page being locked (as there is nothing that prevents buffers to get
> stripped just before calling set_page_dirty() under memory pressure).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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