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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-12-27 01:42:48 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-12-27 01:42:48 -0500
commit721e3eba21e43532e438652dd8f1fcdfce3187e7 (patch)
tree5d1d118d6b671b98edbeabee15e15869305d129f
parentd096ad0f79a782935d2e06ae8fb235e8c5397775 (diff)
ext4: lock i_mutex when truncating orphan inodes
Commit c278531d39 added a warning when ext4_flush_unwritten_io() is called without i_mutex being taken. It had previously not been taken during orphan cleanup since races weren't possible at that point in the mount process, but as a result of this c278531d39, we will now see a kernel WARN_ON in this case. Take the i_mutex in ext4_orphan_cleanup() to suppress this warning. Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/super.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 183ae3447f6..3d4fb81bacd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2220,7 +2220,9 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct super_block *sb,
__func__, inode->i_ino, inode->i_size);
jbd_debug(2, "truncating inode %lu to %lld bytes\n",
inode->i_ino, inode->i_size);
+ mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
ext4_truncate(inode);
+ mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
nr_truncates++;
} else {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_DEBUG,