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Trond Myklebust e3db7691e9 [PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()
NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()

    invalidate_inode_pages2() may find the dirty bit has been set on a page
    owing to the fact that the page may still be mapped after it was locked.
    Only after the call to unmap_mapping_range() are we sure that the page
    can no longer be dirtied.
    In order to fix this, NFS has hooked the releasepage() method and tries
    to write the page out between the call to unmap_mapping_range() and the
    call to remove_mapping(). This, however leads to deadlocks in the page
    reclaim code, where the page may be locked without holding a reference
    to the inode or dentry.

    Fix is to add a new address_space_operation, launder_page(), which will
    attempt to write out a dirty page without releasing the page lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

    Also, the bare SetPageDirty() can skew all sort of accounting leading to
    other nasties.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-11 18:18:21 -08:00
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asm-alpha [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-arm [ARM] Resolve fuse and direct-IO failures due to missing cache flushes 2007-01-08 19:49:58 +00:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-avr32 [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-cris [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-frv [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-generic [PATCH] change WARN_ON back to "BUG: at ..." 2006-12-30 10:55:54 -08:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] i386: Restore CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option 2007-01-05 23:55:23 -08:00
asm-ia64 Merge branch 'release' of master.kernel.org:/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-12-13 15:57:58 -08:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-mips [MIPS] SMTC build fix 2007-01-08 21:41:04 +00:00
asm-parisc [ARM] pass vma for flush_anon_page() 2007-01-08 19:49:54 +00:00
asm-powerpc [POWERPC] Fix bugs in the hypervisor call stats code 2007-01-09 17:03:03 +11:00
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asm-s390 [S390] don't call handle_mm_fault() if in an atomic context. 2007-01-09 10:18:50 +01:00
asm-sh [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-sparc [SPARC64]: Fix of_iounmap() region release. 2006-12-31 14:06:05 -08:00
asm-sparc64 [SPARC64]: Fix of_iounmap() region release. 2006-12-31 14:06:05 -08:00
asm-um [PATCH] UML: add generic BUG support 2006-12-08 08:28:39 -08:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] x86-64: Use different constraint for gcc < 4.1 in bitops.h 2007-01-11 01:52:44 +01:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
crypto [CRYPTO] lib: table driven multiplications in GF(2^128) 2006-12-06 18:38:55 -08:00
keys
linux [PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page() 2007-01-11 18:18:21 -08:00
math-emu
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net Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream-fixes 2007-01-07 22:44:56 -05:00
pcmcia [PATCH] pcmcia: multifunction card handling fixes 2006-12-04 20:09:15 -05:00
rdma IB: Fix ib_dma_alloc_coherent() wrapper 2006-12-15 13:57:26 -08:00
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scsi [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
sound [ALSA] version 1.0.14rc1 2007-01-09 10:57:25 +01:00
video [PATCH] sstfb: add sysfs interface 2006-12-13 09:05:55 -08:00
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