[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: lock the page in __ocfs2_page_mkwrite() -v2
Mark Fasheh
mfasheh at suse.com
Tue Dec 14 09:44:50 PST 2010
Hi Wengang,
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:52:14PM +0800, Wengang Wang wrote:
> Lock the page in __ocfs2_page_mkwrite(). Or we may get -EINVAL error
> from ocfs2_grab_pages_for_write() if the page(page cache) gets truncated
> while someone is flushing the pagecache. In the original code, we are
> checking mapping earlier in __ocfs2_page_mkwrite() but we don't lock it.
> so the mapping can change during flushing pagecache.
Thanks for doing this work. Review is below.
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
> index f1e962c..6b7e1f2 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
> @@ -1130,14 +1130,18 @@ static int ocfs2_grab_pages_for_write(struct address_space *mapping,
>
> if (index == target_index && mmap_page) {
> /*
> - * ocfs2_pagemkwrite() is a little different
> + * ocfs2_page_mkwrite() is a little different
> * and wants us to directly use the page
> * passed in.
> + * So far, only __ocfs2_page_mkwrite() passes in a
> + * non-NULL page. And we locked the page there, so we
> + * just assert the page is locked. If another path will
> + * be passing in a non-NULL page in future, the locking
> + * should be well considered.
> */
> - lock_page(mmap_page);
> + BUG_ON(!PageLocked(mmap_page));
>
> if (mmap_page->mapping != mapping) {
> - unlock_page(mmap_page);
> /*
> * Sanity check - the locking in
> * ocfs2_pagemkwrite() should ensure
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/mmap.c b/fs/ocfs2/mmap.c
> index 7e32db9..bb29335 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/mmap.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/mmap.c
> @@ -79,9 +79,10 @@ static int __ocfs2_page_mkwrite(struct file *file, struct buffer_head *di_bh,
> * from do_generic_file_read.
> */
> last_index = (size - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
> + lock_page(page);
This breaks the page lock ordering in ocfs2_grab_pages_for_write() -- note
that the call to find_or_create_page() in that function returns pages in a
locked state. So roughly, we want to be taking them in index order.
--Mark
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Mark Fasheh
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