On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:22:16PM +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: > > drop i_block_reservation_lock before vfs_dq_reserve_block(). > this patch fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14739 > > changes from previous version: > - simplify the patch according to Jan's comments > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 +++--- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c > index 942e183..2327f7a 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c > @@ -1851,6 +1851,7 @@ repeat: > > md_needed = mdblocks - EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_meta_blocks; > total = md_needed + nrblocks; > + spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock); > > /* > * Make quota reservation here to prevent quota overflow > @@ -1858,12 +1859,10 @@ repeat: > * time. > */ > if (vfs_dq_reserve_block(inode, total)) { > - spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock); > return -EDQUOT; > } > > if (ext4_claim_free_blocks(sbi, total)) { > - spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock); > vfs_dq_release_reservation_block(inode, total); > if (ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries)) { > yield(); > @@ -1871,10 +1870,11 @@ repeat: > } > return -ENOSPC; > } > + spin_lock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock); > EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks += nrblocks; > EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_meta_blocks = mdblocks; > - > spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock); > + > return 0; /* success */ NACK I guess we would end up setting i_reserved_meta_blocks wrongly because mdblocks could be based on the old value of i_reserved_meta_blocks because we are dropping i_block_reservation_lock lock. -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html