There are three entry points which dirty pages in a filesystem. mmap (handled
by block_page_mkwrite()), buffered write (handled by
__generic_file_aio_write()), and truncate (it can dirty last partial page -
handled by do_truncate()). Protect these places with sb_start_write() and
sb_end_write().
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/buffer.c | 18 ++----------------
fs/open.c | 6 ++++++
mm/filemap.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 19d8eb7..8519405 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2371,18 +2371,7 @@ int __block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
if (unlikely(ret < 0))
goto out_unlock;
- /*
- * Freezing in progress? We check after the page is marked dirty and
- * with page lock held so if the test here fails, we are sure freezing
- * code will wait during syncing until the page fault is done - at that
- * point page will be dirty and unlocked so freezing code will write it
- * and writeprotect it again.
- */
set_page_dirty(page);
- if (inode->i_sb->s_frozen != SB_UNFROZEN) {
- ret = -EAGAIN;
- goto out_unlock;
- }
wait_on_page_writeback(page);
return 0;
out_unlock:
@@ -2397,12 +2386,9 @@ int block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
int ret;
struct super_block *sb = vma->vm_file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_sb;
- /*
- * This check is racy but catches the common case. The check in
- * __block_page_mkwrite() is reliable.
- */
- vfs_check_frozen(sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
+ sb_start_write(sb);
ret = __block_page_mkwrite(vma, vmf, get_block);
+ sb_end_write(sb);
return block_page_mkwrite_return(ret);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_page_mkwrite);
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 22c41b5..ee17c90 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -55,8 +55,14 @@ int do_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, loff_t length, unsigned int time_attrs,
if (ret)
newattrs.ia_valid |= ret | ATTR_FORCE;
+ /*
+ * Truncate can dirty last partial page so we need protection against
+ * filesystem freezing.
+ */
mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
+ sb_start_write(dentry->d_sb);
ret = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
+ sb_end_write(dentry->d_sb);
mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
return ret;
}
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index c0018f2..6566c73 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2529,7 +2529,7 @@ ssize_t __generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
count = ocount;
pos = *ppos;
- vfs_check_frozen(inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
+ sb_start_write(inode->i_sb);
/* We can write back this queue in page reclaim */
current->backing_dev_info = mapping->backing_dev_info;
@@ -2601,6 +2601,7 @@ ssize_t __generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
pos, ppos, count, written);
}
out:
+ sb_end_write(inode->i_sb);
current->backing_dev_info = NULL;
return written ? written : err;
}
--
1.7.1
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