[PATCH] buffer_head leak
Fix buffer-head leak on truncate race. The reason why it hadn't been triggered left right and center is that we step on that path only when partial truncate blows away an indirect block shared between truncated and remaining areas _and_ races with ext2_get_block() in the beginning of said area. IOW, we need * indirect block with hole in the beginning * get_block starting to read that block * truncate killing everything past the hole (and thus freeing indirect block in question) * get_block completing the read and noticing that block is actually gone. OK... IMO we should do that brelse() outside of the loop.
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