3.13.11-ckt33 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 4ad78628445d26e5e9487b2e8f23274ad7b0f5d3 upstream. For block devices the pagecache is associated with the inode on bdevfs, not with the aliasing ones on the mountable filesystems. The latter have its own ->i_data empty and ->i_mapping pointing to the (unique per major/minor) bdevfs inode. That guarantees cache coherence between all block device inodes with the same device number. Eviction of an alias inode has no business trying to evict the pages belonging to bdevfs one; moreover, ->i_mapping is only safe to access when the thing is opened. At the time of ->evict_inode() the victim is definitely *not* opened. We are about to kill the address space embedded into struct inode (inode->i_data) and that's what we need to empty of any pages. 9p instance tries to empty inode->i_mapping instead, which is both unsafe and bogus - if we have several device nodes with the same device number in different places, closing one of them should not try to empty the (shared) page cache. Fortunately, other instances in the tree are OK; they are evicting from &inode->i_data instead, as 9p one should. Reported-by: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <Suzuki.Poulose@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <Suzuki.Poulose@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: context ] Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/9p/vfs_inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c index 5a80d7a..15e00c7 100644 --- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c @@ -444,9 +444,9 @@ void v9fs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) { struct v9fs_inode *v9inode = V9FS_I(inode); - truncate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0); + truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0); clear_inode(inode); - filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping); + filemap_fdatawrite(&inode->i_data); v9fs_cache_inode_put_cookie(inode); /* clunk the fid stashed in writeback_fid */ -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html