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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2011-02-27 21:43:24 (GMT) |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2011-02-27 21:43:24 (GMT) |
commit | a54aa76108619e5d8290b49081c2aaaeff5be9a2 (patch) | |
tree | a3c436e29b5452f9c17bffc7bbc6b8f437c3255c /security | |
parent | 168fc0223c0e944957b1f31d88c2334fc904baf1 (diff) | |
download | linux-a54aa76108619e5d8290b49081c2aaaeff5be9a2.tar.xz |
ext4: don't leave PageWriteback set after memory failure
In ext4_bio_write_page(), if the memory allocation for the struct
ext4_io_page fails, it returns with the page's PageWriteback flag set.
This will end up causing the page not to skip writeback in
WB_SYNC_NONE mode, and in WB_SYNC_ALL mode (i.e., on a sync, fsync, or
umount) the writeback daemon will get stuck forever on the
wait_on_page_writeback() function in write_cache_pages_da().
Or, if journalling is enabled and the file gets deleted, it the
journal thread can get stuck in journal_finish_inode_data_buffers()
call to filemap_fdatawait().
Another place where things can get hung up is in
truncate_inode_pages(), called out of ext4_evict_inode().
Fix this by not setting PageWriteback until after we have successfully
allocated the struct ext4_io_page.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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