No need to wait when offset equals to 0. And it will trigger a bug since the latter __ext4_journalled_invalidatepage can free the buffers but leave page still dirty. [ 26.057508] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 26.058531] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:2134! ... [ 26.088130] Call trace: [ 26.088695] ext4_writepage+0x914/0xb28 [ 26.089541] writeout.isra.4+0x1b4/0x2b8 [ 26.090409] move_to_new_page+0x3b0/0x568 [ 26.091338] __unmap_and_move+0x648/0x988 [ 26.092241] unmap_and_move+0x48c/0xbb8 [ 26.093096] migrate_pages+0x220/0xb28 [ 26.093945] kernel_mbind+0x828/0xa18 [ 26.094791] __arm64_sys_mbind+0xc8/0x138 [ 26.095716] el0_svc_common+0x190/0x490 [ 26.096571] el0_svc_handler+0x60/0xd0 [ 26.097423] el0_svc+0x8/0xc Run below parallel can reproduce it easily(ext3): void main() { int fd, fd1, fd2, fd3, ret; void *addr; size_t length = 4096; int flags; off_t offset = 0; char *str = "12345"; fd = open("a", O_RDWR | O_CREAT); assert(fd >= 0); ret = ftruncate(fd, length); assert(ret == 0); fd1 = open("a", O_RDWR | O_CREAT, -1); assert(fd1 >= 0); flags = 0xc00f;/*Journal data mode*/ ret = ioctl(fd1, _IOW('f', 2, long), &flags); assert(ret == 0); fd2 = open("a", O_RDWR | O_CREAT); assert(fd2 >= 0); fd3 = open("a", O_TRUNC | O_NOATIME); assert(fd3 >= 0); addr = mmap(NULL, length, 0xe, 0x28013, fd2, offset); assert(addr != (void *)-1); memcpy(addr, str, 5); mbind(addr, length, 0, 0, 0, 2); close(fd); munmap(addr, length); } Signed-off-by: yangerkun <yangerkun@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 006b7a2070bf..a9943ae4f74d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -5479,7 +5479,7 @@ static void ext4_wait_for_tail_page_commit(struct inode *inode) * do. We do the check mainly to optimize the common PAGE_SIZE == * blocksize case */ - if (offset > PAGE_SIZE - i_blocksize(inode)) + if (!offset || offset > PAGE_SIZE - i_blocksize(inode)) return; while (1) { page = find_lock_page(inode->i_mapping, -- 2.17.2