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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/inode.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 44ee5d933b36..321a31cef59c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -2754,13 +2754,36 @@ retry: done = true; } } - ext4_journal_stop(handle); + /* + * Caution: If the handle is synchronous, + * ext4_journal_stop() can wait for transaction commit + * to finish which may depend on writeback of pages to + * complete or on page lock to be released. In that + * case, we have to wait until after after we have + * submitted all the IO, released page locks we hold, + * and dropped io_end reference (for extent conversion + * to be able to complete) before stopping the handle. + */ + if (!ext4_handle_valid(handle) || handle->h_sync == 0) { + ext4_journal_stop(handle); + handle = NULL; + } /* Submit prepared bio */ ext4_io_submit(&mpd.io_submit); /* Unlock pages we didn't use */ mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write); - /* Drop our io_end reference we got from init */ - ext4_put_io_end(mpd.io_submit.io_end); + /* + * Drop our io_end reference we got from init. We have + * to be careful and use deferred io_end finishing if + * we are still holding the transaction as we can + * release the last reference to io_end which may end + * up doing unwritten extent conversion. + */ + if (handle) { + ext4_put_io_end_defer(mpd.io_submit.io_end); + ext4_journal_stop(handle); + } else + ext4_put_io_end(mpd.io_submit.io_end); if (ret == -ENOSPC && sbi->s_journal) { /* |