If inline->extent conversion fails (most probably due to ENOSPC) and we release the temporary page that we allocated to transfer the file contents, don't keep using the page pointer after releasing the page. This occasionally leads to complaints about evicting locked pages or hangs when blocksize > pagesize, because it's possible for the page to get reallocated elsewhere in the meantime. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tao Ma <tm@xxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inline.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inline.c b/fs/ext4/inline.c index bea662b..378aadf 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inline.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c @@ -594,6 +594,7 @@ retry: if (ret) { unlock_page(page); page_cache_release(page); + page = NULL; ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode); up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->xattr_sem); sem_held = 0; @@ -613,7 +614,8 @@ retry: if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries)) goto retry; - block_commit_write(page, from, to); + if (page) + block_commit_write(page, from, to); out: if (page) { unlock_page(page); -- 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