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-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/xattr.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/xattr.c b/fs/ext3/xattr.c
index 32e6cc2..d565759 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/xattr.c
@@ -803,8 +803,16 @@ inserted:
/* We need to allocate a new block */
ext3_fsblk_t goal = ext3_group_first_block_no(sb,
EXT3_I(inode)->i_block_group);
- ext3_fsblk_t block = ext3_new_block(handle, inode,
- goal, &error);
+ ext3_fsblk_t block;
+
+ /*
+ * Protect us agaist concurrent allocations to the
+ * same inode from ext3_..._writepage(). Reservation
+ * code does not expect racing allocations.
+ */
+ mutex_lock(&EXT3_I(inode)->truncate_mutex);
+ block = ext3_new_block(handle, inode, goal, &error);
+ mutex_unlock(&EXT3_I(inode)->truncate_mutex);
if (error)
goto cleanup;
ea_idebug(inode, "creating block %d", block);