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Message-id: <001201cf7951$2d6f6260$884e2720$@samsung.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 May 2014 11:12:57 +0900
From:	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
To:	'Theodore Ts'o' <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	'linux-ext4' <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	'Lukáš Czerner' <lczerner@...hat.com>,
	'Ashish Sangwan' <a.sangwan@...sung.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: introduce new i_write_mutex to protect fallocate

> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:29:00PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:19:17AM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > > Introduce new i_write_mutex to protect new writes from coming while doing
> > > fallocate operations. Also, get rid of aio_mutex as it is covered by
> > > i_write_mutex.
> > >
> > Thanks, applied.
> >
> 
> I had to apply the following fix up patch, or else running generic/308
> using the ext3 config would end up returning to userspace with
> i_write_mutex still locked.
> 
> For all ext4 developers: please consider running at least
> "kvm-xfstests -g quick" (which would have shown this issue), or better
> yet, "kvm-xfstests -g auto" before sending patches.  It finds problems
> like this.  :-)
Hi Ted.

Sorry for my mistake... I will carefully test it next time. :)

Thanks a lot!!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 					- Ted
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
> index 8c39305..e5cd87f 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/file.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
> @@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
>  		if ((pos > sbi->s_bitmap_maxbytes) ||
>  		    (pos == sbi->s_bitmap_maxbytes && length > 0)) {
>  			mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
> -			ret = -EFBIG;
> -			goto errout;
> +			mutex_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_write_mutex);
> +			return -EFBIG;
>  		}
> 
>  		if (pos + length > sbi->s_bitmap_maxbytes) {
> @@ -196,7 +196,6 @@ ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
>  	if (o_direct)
>  		blk_finish_plug(&plug);
> 
> -errout:
>  	if (unaligned_direct_aio)
>  		mutex_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_write_mutex);
>  	return ret;

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