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Message-ID: <4CAF3ED4.2030508@panasas.com>
Date:	Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:55:00 -0400
From:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	open-osd <osd-dev@...n-osd.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] exofs: Last minute fix found at Bakeathon

The following changes since commit:

  Linux 2.6.36-rc7 (2010-10-06 13:39:52 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:
  git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd.git for-linus

Boaz Harrosh (1):
      exofs: Fix double page_unlock BUG in write_begin/end

Sorry for been so late it was just found. If not we can always
push through stable.

Thanks
Boaz
---
Subject: [PATCH] exofs: Fix double page_unlock BUG in write_begin/end

This BUG is there since the first submit of the code, but only triggered
in last Kernel. It's timing related do to the asynchronous object-creation
behaviour of exofs. (Which should be investigated farther)

The bug is obvious hence the fixed.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <Boaz Harrosh bharrosh@...asas.com>
---
 fs/exofs/inode.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exofs/inode.c b/fs/exofs/inode.c
index eb7368e..3eadd97 100644
--- a/fs/exofs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/exofs/inode.c
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ struct page_collect {
 	unsigned nr_pages;
 	unsigned long length;
 	loff_t pg_first; /* keep 64bit also in 32-arches */
+	bool read_4_write; /* This means two things: that the read is sync
+			    * And the pages should not be unlocked.
+			    */
 };
 
 static void _pcol_init(struct page_collect *pcol, unsigned expected_pages,
@@ -71,6 +74,7 @@ static void _pcol_init(struct page_collect *pcol, unsigned expected_pages,
 	pcol->nr_pages = 0;
 	pcol->length = 0;
 	pcol->pg_first = -1;
+	pcol->read_4_write = false;
 }
 
 static void _pcol_reset(struct page_collect *pcol)
@@ -347,7 +351,8 @@ static int readpage_strip(void *data, struct page *page)
 		if (PageError(page))
 			ClearPageError(page);
 
-		unlock_page(page);
+		if (!pcol->read_4_write)
+			unlock_page(page);
 		EXOFS_DBGMSG("readpage_strip(0x%lx, 0x%lx) empty page,"
 			     " splitting\n", inode->i_ino, page->index);
 
@@ -428,6 +433,7 @@ static int _readpage(struct page *page, bool is_sync)
 	/* readpage_strip might call read_exec(,is_sync==false) at several
 	 * places but not if we have a single page.
 	 */
+	pcol.read_4_write = is_sync;
 	ret = readpage_strip(&pcol, page);
 	if (ret) {
 		EXOFS_ERR("_readpage => %d\n", ret);
-- 
1.7.2

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