This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm: Remove false WARN_ON from pagecache_isize_extended() to the 3.10-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: mm-remove-false-warn_on-from-pagecache_isize_extended.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f55fefd1a5a339b1bd08c120b93312d6eb64a9fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:35:00 +1100 Subject: mm: Remove false WARN_ON from pagecache_isize_extended() From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> commit f55fefd1a5a339b1bd08c120b93312d6eb64a9fb upstream. The WARN_ON checking whether i_mutex is held in pagecache_isize_extended() was wrong because some filesystems (e.g. XFS) use different locks for serialization of truncates / writes. So just remove the check. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/truncate.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/mm/truncate.c @@ -603,7 +603,6 @@ void pagecache_isize_extended(struct ino struct page *page; pgoff_t index; - WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex)); WARN_ON(to > inode->i_size); if (from >= to || bsize == PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are queue-3.10/ext3-don-t-check-quota-format-when-there-are-no-quota-files.patch queue-3.10/evm-check-xattr-value-length-and-type-in-evm_inode_setxattr.patch queue-3.10/scsi-fix-error-handling-in-scsi_ioctl_send_command.patch queue-3.10/ext4-don-t-check-quota-format-when-there-are-no-quota-files.patch queue-3.10/lib-bitmap.c-fix-undefined-shift-in-__bitmap_shift_-left-right.patch queue-3.10/ext4-fix-oops-when-loading-block-bitmap-failed.patch queue-3.10/vfs-fix-data-corruption-when-blocksize-pagesize-for-mmaped-data.patch queue-3.10/mm-remove-false-warn_on-from-pagecache_isize_extended.patch queue-3.10/ext4-fix-overflow-when-updating-superblock-backups-after-resize.patch queue-3.10/ext4-grab-missed-write_count-for-ext4_ioc_swap_boot.patch queue-3.10/quota-properly-return-errors-from-dquot_writeback_dquots.patch -- 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