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ext4: avoid potential hang in mpage_submit_io() when blocksize < pagesize

If there is an unwritten but clean buffer in a page and there is a
dirty buffer after the buffer, then mpage_submit_io does not write the
dirty buffer out.  As a result, da_writepages loops forever.

This patch fixes the problem by checking dirty flag.

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Yongqiang Yang 13 vuotta sitten
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1 muutettua tiedostoa jossa 5 lisäystä ja 2 poistoa
  1. 5 2
      fs/ext4/inode.c

+ 5 - 2
fs/ext4/inode.c

@@ -1339,8 +1339,11 @@ static int mpage_da_submit_io(struct mpage_da_data *mpd,
 					clear_buffer_unwritten(bh);
 				}
 
-				/* skip page if block allocation undone */
-				if (buffer_delay(bh) || buffer_unwritten(bh))
+				/*
+				 * skip page if block allocation undone and
+				 * block is dirty
+				 */
+				if (ext4_bh_delay_or_unwritten(NULL, bh))
 					skip_page = 1;
 				bh = bh->b_this_page;
 				block_start += bh->b_size;