linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] reiser4: page lock recursion in reiser4_write

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Message-Id: <200703152034.29962.vs@namesys.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:34:29 +0300
From:	"Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@...esys.com>
To:	"Nate Diller" <nate.diller@...il.com>
Cc:	reiserfs-dev@...esys.com,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] reiser4: page lock recursion in reiser4_write_extent

Hello

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 08:40, Nate Diller wrote:
> This little code snippet seems to have a page_lock recursion, in
> addition to overall looking particularly fragile to me.  It seems to
> be handling the case where a page needs to be brought uptodate because
> a partial page write is being done.  The page gets locked as many as 3
> times, each checking PageUptodate, however the two failure cases here
> go BUG() instead of returning an error. 

yes, these are to be returned errors

> I'm starting to think that 
> somehow the whole suspect branch just never gets taken, because
> otherwise I would expect to see bug reports related to -EIO, -ENOMEM,
> etc causing this to barf.

> 
[snip]
> 
> BOOM!!!

2.6.21-rc3-mm2 has this bug fixed.

>                 lock_page(page);
>                 if (!PageUptodate(page) && to_page != PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) {
> 
> ---
> 
> NATE
> 
> 
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