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author | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2012-05-09 18:30:35 (GMT) |
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committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2012-05-09 19:16:07 (GMT) |
commit | 3aff4ebb95b20ad8db2c1447e8c52097d89af5a7 (patch) | |
tree | ad56aceafbcbd0650e71e029ffa138eedffd33ba /include/linux/mutex.h | |
parent | dc327ed4cd320be689596365372a3683208c3ba0 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-3aff4ebb95b20ad8db2c1447e8c52097d89af5a7.tar.xz |
NFS: Prevent a deadlock in the new writeback code
We have to unlock the nfs_page before we call nfs_end_page_writeback
to avoid races with functions that expect the page to be unlocked
when PG_locked and PG_writeback are not set.
The problem is that nfs_unlock_request also releases the nfs_page,
causing a deadlock if the release of the nfs_open_context
triggers an iput() while the PG_writeback flag is still set...
The solution is to separate the unlocking and release of the nfs_page,
so that we can do the former before nfs_end_page_writeback and the
latter after.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
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