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[PATCH 3/4] ext4: Protect ext4_page_mkwrite with sb_start_write - sb_end_write

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: 2012-01-12 01:20:52
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-xfs, lkml
Subsystem: ext4 file system, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: "Theodore Ts'o", Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

Since ext4_page_mkwrite() calls into __block_page_mkwrite() it has to
provide freezing protection on it's own.

CC: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |    7 ++-----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 848f436..fbe998b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4733,11 +4733,7 @@ int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	get_block_t *get_block;
 	int retries = 0;
 
-	/*
-	 * This check is racy but catches the common case. We rely on
-	 * __block_page_mkwrite() to do a reliable check.
-	 */
-	vfs_check_frozen(inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
+	sb_start_write(inode->i_sb);
 	/* Delalloc case is easy... */
 	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, DELALLOC) &&
 	    !ext4_should_journal_data(inode) &&
@@ -4805,5 +4801,6 @@ retry_alloc:
 out_ret:
 	ret = block_page_mkwrite_return(ret);
 out:
+	sb_end_write(inode->i_sb);
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
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