From patchwork Tue Feb 9 15:39:07 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() question Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:39:07 -0000 From: Jan Kara X-Patchwork-Id: 44910 Message-Id: <20100209153906.GC15318@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> To: tytso@mit.edu Cc: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" > Hi, > > On Tue 26-01-10 21:36:08, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > I noticed that ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() does pagevec_lookup() > > without pagevec_release()/put_page(). Is that OK? > Yes, the function looks buggy. Luckily, it is called only in case we are > not able to allocate space for delay-allocated data which is a bug on its > own. So people should never hit it. > Attached patch should fix the issue. Ted, will you merge it please? > Thanks. Ted, could you please merge the patch below? Thanks! Honza --- >From 47085f1ac03eaca9e4d7a5f8f1e40e87d3879512 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:15:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Release page references acquired in ext4_da_block_invalidatepages We forget to release page references we acquire in ext4_da_block_invalidatepages. Luckily, this function gets called only if we are not able to allocate blocks for delay-allocated data so that function should better never be called. Also cleanup handling of index variable. Reported-by: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 7 +++---- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index c818972..1680007 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -2127,17 +2127,16 @@ static void ext4_da_block_invalidatepages(struct mpage_da_data *mpd, break; for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { struct page *page = pvec.pages[i]; - index = page->index; - if (index > end) + if (page->index > end) break; - index++; - BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page)); block_invalidatepage(page, 0); ClearPageUptodate(page); unlock_page(page); } + index = pvec.pages[nr_pages - 1]->index + 1; + pagevec_release(&pvec); } return; }