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    fs: avoid I_NEW inodes · aabb8fdb
    Nick Piggin authored
    To be on the safe side, it should be less fragile to exclude I_NEW inodes
    from inode list scans by default (unless there is an important reason to
    have them).
    
    Normally they will get excluded (eg.  by zero refcount or writecount etc),
    however it is a bit fragile for list walkers to know exactly what parts of
    the inode state is set up and valid to test when in I_NEW.  So along these
    lines, move I_NEW checks upward as well (sometimes taking I_FREEING etc
    checks with them too -- this shouldn't be a problem should it?)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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