xfs: always return with the iolock held from xfs_file_aio_write_checks
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:00:13 +0000 (20:00 +0000)
committerBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:11:07 +0000 (15:11 -0600)
While xfs_iunlock is fine with 0 lockflags the calling conventions are much
cleaner if xfs_file_aio_write_checks never returns without the iolock held.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
fs/xfs/xfs_file.c

index 6323139..134ff2f 100644 (file)
@@ -636,7 +636,9 @@ out_lock:
 /*
  * Common pre-write limit and setup checks.
  *
- * Returns with iolock held according to @iolock.
+ * Called with the iolocked held either shared and exclusive according to
+ * @iolock, and returns with it held.  Might upgrade the iolock to exclusive
+ * if called for a direct write beyond i_size.
  */
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_write_checks(
@@ -653,8 +655,7 @@ xfs_file_aio_write_checks(
 restart:
        error = generic_write_checks(file, pos, count, S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode));
        if (error) {
-               xfs_rw_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL | *iolock);
-               *iolock = 0;
+               xfs_rw_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
                return error;
        }