2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Dave Kleikamp commit b066a48c9532243894f93a06ca5a0ee2cc21a8dc upstream prevent cifs_writepages() from skipping unwritten pages Fixes a data corruption under heavy stress in which pages could be left dirty after all open instances of a inode have been closed. In order to write contiguous pages whenever possible, cifs_writepages() asks pagevec_lookup_tag() for more pages than it may write at one time. Normally, it then resets index just past the last page written before calling pagevec_lookup_tag() again. If cifs_writepages() can't write the first page returned, it wasn't resetting index, and the next call to pagevec_lookup_tag() resulted in skipping all of the pages it previously returned, even though cifs_writepages() did nothing with them. This can result in data loss when the file descriptor is about to be closed. This patch ensures that index gets set back to the next returned page so that none get skipped. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp Acked-by: Jeff Layton Cc: Shirish S Pargaonkar Signed-off-by: Steve French Cc: Suresh Jayaraman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/cifs/file.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/file.c +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c @@ -1396,7 +1396,10 @@ retry: if ((wbc->nr_to_write -= n_iov) <= 0) done = 1; index = next; - } + } else + /* Need to re-find the pages we skipped */ + index = pvec.pages[0]->index + 1; + pagevec_release(&pvec); } if (!scanned && !done) { -- 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/