From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:42:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: xfs: avoid direct I/O write vs buffered I/O race
X-Git-Tag: v3.2-rc1~134^2~55
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c58cb165bd44de8aaee9755a144136ae743be116;p=pandora-kernel.git

xfs: avoid direct I/O write vs buffered I/O race

Currently a buffered reader or writer can add pages to the pagecache
while we are waiting for the iolock in xfs_file_dio_aio_write.  Prevent
this by re-checking mapping->nrpages after we got the iolock, and if
nessecary upgrade the lock to exclusive mode.  To simplify this a bit
only take the ilock inside of xfs_file_aio_write_checks.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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