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-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 460f1c43238..1ad674fd348 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2844,7 +2844,6 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page)
spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
ret = drop_buffers(page, &buffers_to_free);
- spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
/*
* If the filesystem writes its buffers by hand (eg ext3)
@@ -2855,9 +2854,14 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page)
* Also, during truncate, discard_buffer will have marked all
* the page's buffers clean. We discover that here and clean
* the page also.
+ *
+ * private_lock must be held over this entire operation in order
+ * to synchronise against __set_page_dirty_buffers and prevent the
+ * dirty bit from being lost.
*/
if (ret)
cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
+ spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
out:
if (buffers_to_free) {
struct buffer_head *bh = buffers_to_free;