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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-09-09 22:36:03 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2009-09-09 22:36:03 -0400
commita827eaffff07c7d58a4cb32158cbeb4849f4e33a (patch)
tree6167caf1619f0d9555fd67a2facbf2351a0a7905 /fs/ext4
parent44fc48f7048ab9657b524938a832fec4e0acea98 (diff)
ext4: Take page lock before looking at attached buffer_heads flags
In order to check whether the buffer_heads are mapped we need to hold page lock. Otherwise a reclaim can cleanup the attached buffer_heads. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 17802a96af9..5c0d17066f4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -5286,12 +5286,21 @@ int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
else
len = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
+ lock_page(page);
+ /*
+ * return if we have all the buffers mapped. This avoid
+ * the need to call write_begin/write_end which does a
+ * journal_start/journal_stop which can block and take
+ * long time
+ */
if (page_has_buffers(page)) {
- /* return if we have all the buffers mapped */
if (!walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_buffers(page), 0, len, NULL,
- ext4_bh_unmapped))
+ ext4_bh_unmapped)) {
+ unlock_page(page);
goto out_unlock;
+ }
}
+ unlock_page(page);
/*
* OK, we need to fill the hole... Do write_begin write_end
* to do block allocation/reservation.We are not holding