2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ (cherry picked from commit a827eaffff07c7d58a4cb32158cbeb4849f4e33a) In order to check whether the buffer_heads are mapped we need to hold page lock. Otherwise a reclaim can cleanup the attached buffer_heads. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -5298,12 +5298,21 @@ int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_str else len = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE; + lock_page(page); + /* + * return if we have all the buffers mapped. This avoid + * the need to call write_begin/write_end which does a + * journal_start/journal_stop which can block and take + * long time + */ if (page_has_buffers(page)) { - /* return if we have all the buffers mapped */ if (!walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_buffers(page), 0, len, NULL, - ext4_bh_unmapped)) + ext4_bh_unmapped)) { + unlock_page(page); goto out_unlock; + } } + unlock_page(page); /* * OK, we need to fill the hole... Do write_begin write_end * to do block allocation/reservation.We are not holding -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/