From: Kazuya Mio Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:23:08 +0000 (-0400) Subject: ext4: fix the deadlock in mpage_da_map_and_submit() X-Git-Tag: MMI-PSA29.97-13-9~18150^2~40 X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8de49e674a1133ab8998914a6e933ceb4b5f4b07;p=GitHub%2FMotorolaMobilityLLC%2Fkernel-slsi.git ext4: fix the deadlock in mpage_da_map_and_submit() If ext4_jbd2_file_inode() in mpage_da_map_and_submit() fails due to journal abort, this function returns to caller without unlocking the page. It leads to the deadlock, and the patch fixes this issue by calling mpage_da_submit_io(). Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index ecb572591924..ff6aace0bb3c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -1552,9 +1552,11 @@ static void mpage_da_map_and_submit(struct mpage_da_data *mpd) if (ext4_should_order_data(mpd->inode)) { err = ext4_jbd2_file_inode(handle, mpd->inode); - if (err) + if (err) { /* Only if the journal is aborted */ - return; + mpd->retval = err; + goto submit_io; + } } } @@ -2294,11 +2296,12 @@ retry: ret = 0; } else if (ret == MPAGE_DA_EXTENT_TAIL) { /* - * got one extent now try with - * rest of the pages + * Got one extent now try with rest of the pages. + * If mpd.retval is set -EIO, journal is aborted. + * So we don't need to write any more. */ pages_written += mpd.pages_written; - ret = 0; + ret = mpd.retval; io_done = 1; } else if (wbc->nr_to_write) /*