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Commit 786b3112 authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: remove nrexceptional from inode: remove BUG_ON

clear_inode()'s BUG_ON(!mapping_empty(&inode->i_data)) is unsafe: we
know of two ways in which nodes can and do (on rare occasions) get left
behind.  Until those are fixed, do not BUG_ON() nor even WARN_ON().

Yes, this will then leak those nodes (or the next user of the struct
inode may use them); but this has been happening for years, and the new
BUG_ON(!mapping_empty) was only guilty of revealing that.  A proper fix
will follow, but no hurry.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2104292229380.16080@eggly.anvils


Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 8bc3c481
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