Re: FIle copy to FAT FS on NVDIMM hits BUG_ON at fs/buffer.c:3305!

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On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 04:12:18PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 10:11 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 06:23:08PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> > > The locking of this path seems to be broken. The guy familiar to
> > > bdev_write_page() path will made real fix though, The following
> > > patch should be explaining enough what is wrong.
> > > 
> > > In short, clean_buffers() must be called before unlocking
> > > lock_page().
> > 
> > Thanks for that.  This should fix the problem while not leaking the
> > unlock_page call outside bdev_write_page.
> > 
> > --- 8< ---
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks Willy and Hirofumi for the quick fix!  I've tested the change,
> and it works fine.
> 
> Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Out of curiosity, I am still wondering about the following: 
>  - Why is this issue exposed with FAT FS, but not with other FSs?
>  - Why did I not see this issue with BTT?

I also didn't see it with FAT + BRD, so I think the answer to both of the
above is just that the timings were different.



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