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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-02-09 09:45:11 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-02-09 09:45:11 -0500
commit8dcfaad244cdfa245cc2b4ddf42cea5fd8b80ece (patch)
tree7045f5bebd461b6f2cf3e43c008f4d150232e05a
parent931b68649d31b6b52608110f34856f8eb77adb36 (diff)
ext4: start handle at the last possible moment in ext4_rmdir()
Don't start the jbd2 transaction handle until after the directory entry has been found, to minimize the amount of time that a handle is held active. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/namei.c24
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 4a27069d54ad..36a4afd12f39 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2725,26 +2725,18 @@ static int ext4_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
struct inode *inode;
struct buffer_head *bh;
struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de;
- handle_t *handle;
+ handle_t *handle = NULL;
/* Initialize quotas before so that eventual writes go in
* separate transaction */
dquot_initialize(dir);
dquot_initialize(dentry->d_inode);
- handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_HT_DIR,
- EXT4_DELETE_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb));
- if (IS_ERR(handle))
- return PTR_ERR(handle);
-
retval = -ENOENT;
bh = ext4_find_entry(dir, &dentry->d_name, &de, NULL);
if (!bh)
goto end_rmdir;
- if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
- ext4_handle_sync(handle);
-
inode = dentry->d_inode;
retval = -EIO;
@@ -2755,6 +2747,17 @@ static int ext4_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
if (!empty_dir(inode))
goto end_rmdir;
+ handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_HT_DIR,
+ EXT4_DELETE_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb));
+ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+ retval = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ handle = NULL;
+ goto end_rmdir;
+ }
+
+ if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
+ ext4_handle_sync(handle);
+
retval = ext4_delete_entry(handle, dir, de, bh);
if (retval)
goto end_rmdir;
@@ -2776,8 +2779,9 @@ static int ext4_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, dir);
end_rmdir:
- ext4_journal_stop(handle);
brelse(bh);
+ if (handle)
+ ext4_journal_stop(handle);
return retval;
}