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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2005-10-30 15:00:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-30 17:37:17 -0800
commitaaa4059bc2dca7fa816624a28db1958c3a22df9b (patch)
tree8ae1d5458e2f68f96b033f10dae216847c32d4d2 /include
parente812cb5226af32aec91bcbaa8365bd7f921b6ebb (diff)
downloadlinux-aaa4059bc2dca7fa816624a28db1958c3a22df9b.tar.gz
[PATCH] ext3: Fix unmapped buffers in transaction's lists
Fix the problem (BUG 4964) with unmapped buffers in transaction's
t_sync_data list.  The problem is we need to call filesystem's own
invalidatepage() from block_write_full_page().

block_write_full_page() must call filesystem's invalidatepage().  Otherwise
following nasty race can happen:

   proc 1                                        proc 2
   ------                                        ------
- write some new data to 'offset'
  => bh gets to the transactions data list
                                              - starts truncate
                                                => i_size set to new size
- mpage_writepages()
  - ext3_ordered_writepage() to 'offset'
    - block_write_full_page()
      - page->index > end_index+1
        - block_invalidatepage()
          - discard_buffer()
            - clear_buffer_mapped()

- commit triggers and finds unmapped buffer - BOOM!

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/buffer_head.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index c937d6e65502..1db061bb6b08 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ extern int buffer_heads_over_limit;
  */
 int try_to_release_page(struct page * page, gfp_t gfp_mask);
 int block_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset);
+int do_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset);
 int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
 				struct writeback_control *wbc);
 int block_read_full_page(struct page*, get_block_t*);