[PATCH] ext3: Fix unmapped buffers in transaction's lists

Fix the problem (BUG 4964) with unmapped buffers in transaction's
t_sync_data list.  The problem is we need to call filesystem's own
invalidatepage() from block_write_full_page().

block_write_full_page() must call filesystem's invalidatepage().  Otherwise
following nasty race can happen:

   proc 1                                        proc 2
   ------                                        ------
- write some new data to 'offset'
  => bh gets to the transactions data list
                                              - starts truncate
                                                => i_size set to new size
- mpage_writepages()
  - ext3_ordered_writepage() to 'offset'
    - block_write_full_page()
      - page->index > end_index+1
        - block_invalidatepage()
          - discard_buffer()
            - clear_buffer_mapped()

- commit triggers and finds unmapped buffer - BOOM!

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 2066e4cb700c..75cac9ada026 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1637,6 +1637,15 @@ out:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_invalidatepage);
 
+int do_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset)
+{
+	int (*invalidatepage)(struct page *, unsigned long);
+	invalidatepage = page->mapping->a_ops->invalidatepage;
+	if (invalidatepage == NULL)
+		invalidatepage = block_invalidatepage;
+	return (*invalidatepage)(page, offset);
+}
+
 /*
  * We attach and possibly dirty the buffers atomically wrt
  * __set_page_dirty_buffers() via private_lock.  try_to_free_buffers
@@ -2696,7 +2705,7 @@ int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
 		 * they may have been added in ext3_writepage().  Make them
 		 * freeable here, so the page does not leak.
 		 */
-		block_invalidatepage(page, 0);
+		do_invalidatepage(page, 0);
 		unlock_page(page);
 		return 0; /* don't care */
 	}