From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:36:27 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: [PATCH] Fix try_to_free_buffer() locking
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.20-rc7~47
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=87df7241bd547da5d4d4a4e5397866dfe422e439;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] Fix try_to_free_buffer() locking

Fix commit ecdfc9787fe527491baefc22dce8b2dbd5b2908d

Not to put too fine a point on it, but in a nutshell...

	__set_page_dirty_buffers() | try_to_free_buffers()
	---------------------------+---------------------------
	                           | spin_lock(private_lock);
	                           | drop_bufers()
	                           | spin_unlock(private_lock);
	spin_lock(private_lock)    |
	!page_has_buffers()        |
	spin_unlock(private_lock)  |
	SetPageDirty()             |
	                           | cancel_dirty_page()

                          oops!

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 460f1c4323..1ad674fd34 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2844,7 +2844,6 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page)
 
 	spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
 	ret = drop_buffers(page, &buffers_to_free);
-	spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
 
 	/*
 	 * If the filesystem writes its buffers by hand (eg ext3)
@@ -2855,9 +2854,14 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page)
 	 * Also, during truncate, discard_buffer will have marked all
 	 * the page's buffers clean.  We discover that here and clean
 	 * the page also.
+	 *
+	 * private_lock must be held over this entire operation in order
+	 * to synchronise against __set_page_dirty_buffers and prevent the
+	 * dirty bit from being lost.
 	 */
 	if (ret)
 		cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
+	spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
 out:
 	if (buffers_to_free) {
 		struct buffer_head *bh = buffers_to_free;