Commit 3d08bcc8 authored by Darrick J. Wong's avatar Darrick J. Wong Committed by Al Viro

mm: Wait for writeback when grabbing pages to begin a write

When grabbing a page for a buffered IO write, the mm should wait for writeback
on the page to complete so that the page does not become writable during the IO
operation.  This change is needed to provide page stability during writes for
all filesystems.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 98702467
......@@ -2327,7 +2327,7 @@ struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping,
repeat:
page = find_lock_page(mapping, index);
if (page)
return page;
goto found;
page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~gfp_notmask);
if (!page)
......@@ -2340,6 +2340,8 @@ struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping,
goto repeat;
return NULL;
}
found:
wait_on_page_writeback(page);
return page;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(grab_cache_page_write_begin);
......
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