patch-2.3.43 linux/fs/super.c

• Lines: 12
• Date: Wed Feb 9 19:10:14 2000
• Orig file: v2.3.42/linux/fs/super.c
• Orig date: Fri Jan 28 15:09:09 2000

diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.3.42/linux/fs/super.c linux/fs/super.c
@@ -1378,7 +1378,10 @@
 		bdev = do_umount(old_root_dev,1, 0);
 		if (!IS_ERR(bdev)) {
 			printk("okay\n");
-			invalidate_buffers(old_root_dev);
+			/* special: the old device driver is going to be
+			   a ramdisk and the point of this call is to free its
+			   protected memory (even if dirty). */
+			destroy_buffers(old_root_dev);
 			if (bdev) {
 				blkdev_put(bdev, BDEV_FS);
 				bdput(bdev);