From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:29:52 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer()
X-Git-Tag: v3.8-rc2~9^2~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53e872681fed6a43047e71bf927f77d06f467988;p=pandora-kernel.git

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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