This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ceph: redirty page before returning AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
to the 6.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ceph-redirty-page-before-returning-aop_writepage_activate.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b372e96bd0a32729d55d27f613c8bc80708a82e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:21:20 +1100
Subject: ceph: redirty page before returning AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
commit b372e96bd0a32729d55d27f613c8bc80708a82e1 upstream.
The page has been marked clean before writepage is called. If we don't
redirty it before postponing the write, it might never get written.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 503d4fa6ee28 ("ceph: remove reliance on bdi congestion")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ceph/addr.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/ceph/addr.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/addr.c
@@ -795,8 +795,10 @@ static int ceph_writepage(struct page *p
ihold(inode);
if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE &&
- ceph_inode_to_fs_client(inode)->write_congested)
+ ceph_inode_to_fs_client(inode)->write_congested) {
+ redirty_page_for_writepage(wbc, page);
return AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE;
+ }
wait_on_page_fscache(page);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxx are
queue-6.8/ceph-redirty-page-before-returning-aop_writepage_activate.patch
