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-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/inode.c19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
index b49908a167a..eb0b4e0d517 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -172,10 +172,21 @@ static int try_to_extend_transaction(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
* so before we call here everything must be consistently dirtied against
* this transaction.
*/
-static int ext3_journal_test_restart(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
+static int truncate_restart_transaction(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
{
+ int ret;
+
jbd_debug(2, "restarting handle %p\n", handle);
- return ext3_journal_restart(handle, blocks_for_truncate(inode));
+ /*
+ * Drop truncate_mutex to avoid deadlock with ext3_get_blocks_handle
+ * At this moment, get_block can be called only for blocks inside
+ * i_size since page cache has been already dropped and writes are
+ * blocked by i_mutex. So we can safely drop the truncate_mutex.
+ */
+ mutex_unlock(&EXT3_I(inode)->truncate_mutex);
+ ret = ext3_journal_restart(handle, blocks_for_truncate(inode));
+ mutex_lock(&EXT3_I(inode)->truncate_mutex);
+ return ret;
}
/*
@@ -2072,7 +2083,7 @@ static void ext3_clear_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh);
}
ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
- ext3_journal_test_restart(handle, inode);
+ truncate_restart_transaction(handle, inode);
if (bh) {
BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "retaking write access");
ext3_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh);
@@ -2282,7 +2293,7 @@ static void ext3_free_branches(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
return;
if (try_to_extend_transaction(handle, inode)) {
ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
- ext3_journal_test_restart(handle, inode);
+ truncate_restart_transaction(handle, inode);
}
ext3_free_blocks(handle, inode, nr, 1);