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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2012-12-25 13:29:52 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-12-25 13:29:52 -0500
commit53e872681fed6a43047e71bf927f77d06f467988 (patch)
tree8b5061acbaf222b3f25df54ddbcaa0b1123c471a /Documentation/bad_memory.txt
parent4520fb3c3690f2643006d85f09ecb74554c10e95 (diff)
ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer()
We cannot wait for transaction commit in journal_unmap_buffer() because we hold page lock which ranks below transaction start. We solve the issue by bailing out of journal_unmap_buffer() and jbd2_journal_invalidatepage() with -EBUSY. Caller is then responsible for waiting for transaction commit to finish and try invalidation again. Since the issue can happen only for page stradding i_size, it is simple enough to manually call jbd2_journal_invalidatepage() for such page from ext4_setattr(), check the return value and wait if necessary. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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