[PATCH] ext3: fix buffer dirtying
This is a forward-port from 2.4. One of Stephen's recent fixes. I managed to merge up only half of it. Here is the rest. It should fix the asserton failure reported by Robert Macaulay <robert_macaulay@dell.com> "There was a race window in buffer refiling where we could temporarily expose the journal's internal BH_JBDDirect flag as BH_Dirty, which is visible to the rest of the VFS. That doesn't affect the journaling, because we hold journal_head locks while the buffer is in this transient state, but bdflush can see the buffer and write it out unexpectedly, causing ext3 to find the buffer in an unexpected state later." The fix simply keeps the dirty bits clear during the internal buffer processing, restoring the state to the private BH_JBDDirect once refiling is complete."
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