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ext4: Restore wbc->range_start in ext4_da_writepages()
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:00:59 +0000 (17:00 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:06:19 +0000 (08:06 -0800)
(cherry picked from commit de89de6e0cf4b1eb13f27137cf2aa40d287aabdf)

To solve a lock inversion problem, we implement part of the
range_cyclic algorithm in ext4_da_writepages().  (See commit 2acf2c26
for more details.)

As part of that change wbc->range_start was modified by ext4's
writepages function, which causes its callers to get confused since
they aren't expecting the filesystem to modify it.  The simplest fix
is to save and restore wbc->range_start in ext4_da_writepages.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/inode.c

index 04c5a355efd58d0cd736a67b5467b5db23467076..ce8956628023839568316096a0f643176808c364 100644 (file)
@@ -2750,6 +2750,7 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
        long pages_skipped;
        int range_cyclic, cycled = 1, io_done = 0;
        int needed_blocks, ret = 0, nr_to_writebump = 0;
+       loff_t range_start = wbc->range_start;
        struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(mapping->host->i_sb);
 
        trace_ext4_da_writepages(inode, wbc);
@@ -2918,6 +2919,7 @@ out_writepages:
        if (!no_nrwrite_index_update)
                wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update = 0;
        wbc->nr_to_write -= nr_to_writebump;
+       wbc->range_start = range_start;
        trace_ext4_da_writepages_result(inode, wbc, ret, pages_written);
        return ret;
 }