On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:21:40AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:02:23 +0100 (CET) Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > __block_write_full_page is calling SetPageUptodate without the page locked.
> > This is unusual, but not incorrect, as PG_writeback is still set.
> >
> > However with the previous patch, this is now a problem: so don't bother
> > setting the page uptodate in this case (it is weird that the write path
> > does such a thing anyway). Instead just leave it to the read side to bring
> > the page uptodate when it notices that all buffers are uptodate.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/buffer.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c
> > @@ -1679,6 +1679,7 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struc
> > */
> > BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
> > set_page_writeback(page);
> > + unlock_page(page);
> >
> > do {
> > struct buffer_head *next = bh->b_this_page;
> > @@ -1688,7 +1689,6 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struc
> > }
> > bh = next;
> > } while (bh != head);
> > - unlock_page(page);
> >
> > err = 0;
> > done:
>
> Why this change? Without looking at it too hard, it seems that if
> submit_bh() completes synchronously, this thread can end up playing with
> the buffers on a non-locked, non-PageWriteback page. Someone else could
> whip the buffers away and oops?
Hmm, it definitely shouldn't be there, it leaked in from another patch
to bring partiy with the error handling...
Here is an updated patch.
--
__block_write_full_page is calling SetPageUptodate without the page locked.
This is unusual, but not incorrect, as PG_writeback is still set.
However with the previous patch, this is now a problem: so don't bother
setting the page uptodate in this case (it is weird that the write path
does such a thing anyway). Instead just leave it to the read side to bring
the page uptodate when it notices that all buffers are uptodate.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Index: linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/buffer.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1698,17 +1698,8 @@ done:
* clean. Someone wrote them back by hand with
* ll_rw_block/submit_bh. A rare case.
*/
- int uptodate = 1;
- do {
- if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
- uptodate = 0;
- break;
- }
- bh = bh->b_this_page;
- } while (bh != head);
- if (uptodate)
- SetPageUptodate(page);
end_page_writeback(page);
+
/*
* The page and buffer_heads can be released at any time from
* here on.
-
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