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-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c29
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index e31d762eedce..6af24fe4ae2d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2589,13 +2589,36 @@ retry:
done = true;
}
}
- ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+ /*
+ * Caution: If the handle is synchronous,
+ * ext4_journal_stop() can wait for transaction commit
+ * to finish which may depend on writeback of pages to
+ * complete or on page lock to be released. In that
+ * case, we have to wait until after after we have
+ * submitted all the IO, released page locks we hold,
+ * and dropped io_end reference (for extent conversion
+ * to be able to complete) before stopping the handle.
+ */
+ if (!ext4_handle_valid(handle) || handle->h_sync == 0) {
+ ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+ handle = NULL;
+ }
/* Submit prepared bio */
ext4_io_submit(&mpd.io_submit);
/* Unlock pages we didn't use */
mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write);
- /* Drop our io_end reference we got from init */
- ext4_put_io_end(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
+ /*
+ * Drop our io_end reference we got from init. We have
+ * to be careful and use deferred io_end finishing if
+ * we are still holding the transaction as we can
+ * release the last reference to io_end which may end
+ * up doing unwritten extent conversion.
+ */
+ if (handle) {
+ ext4_put_io_end_defer(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
+ ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+ } else
+ ext4_put_io_end(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
if (ret == -ENOSPC && sbi->s_journal) {
/*