linux-kernel - [PATCH] NFS: Close page

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Message-Id: <1241315252.15825.0.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:32:22 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] NFS: Close page_mkwrite() races

Follow up to Nick Piggin's patches to ensure that nfs_vm_page_mkwrite
returns with the page lock held, and sets the VM_FAULT_LOCKED flag.

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
---
 fs/nfs/file.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
index 5a97bcf..ec7e27d 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -517,10 +517,10 @@ static int nfs_vm_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
 
 	ret = nfs_updatepage(filp, page, 0, pagelen);
 out_unlock:
+	if (!ret)
+		return VM_FAULT_LOCKED;
 	unlock_page(page);
-	if (ret)
-		ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
-	return ret;
+	return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
 }
 
 static struct vm_operations_struct nfs_file_vm_ops = {
-- 
1.6.0.6
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