From f3ddbdc6267c32223035ea9bb8456a2d86f65ba1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 16:15:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] fix race in __block_prepare_write Fix a race where __block_prepare_write can leak out an in-flight read against a bh if get_block returns an error. This can lead to the page becoming unlocked while the buffer is locked and the read still in flight. __mpage_writepage BUGs on this condition. BUG sighted on a 2-way Itanium2 system with 16K PAGE_SIZE running fsstress -v -d $DIR/tmp -n 1000 -p 1000 -l 2 where $DIR is a new ext2 filesystem with 4K blocks that is quite small (causing get_block to fail often with -ENOSPC). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed