1. 30 Mar, 2011 1 commit
    • Ryusuke Konishi's avatar
      nilfs2: fix data loss in mmap page write for hole blocks · 34094537
      Ryusuke Konishi authored
      From the result of a function test of mmap, mmap write to shared pages
      turned out to be broken for hole blocks.  It doesn't write out filled
      blocks and the data will be lost after umount.  This is due to a bug
      that the target file is not queued for log writer when filling hole
      blocks.
      
      Also, nilfs_page_mkwrite function exits normal code path even after
      successfully filled hole blocks due to a change of block_page_mkwrite
      function; just after nilfs was merged into the mainline,
      block_page_mkwrite() started to return VM_FAULT_LOCKED instead of zero
      by the patch "mm: close page_mkwrite races" (commit:
      b827e496).  The current nilfs_page_mkwrite() is not handling
      this value properly.
      
      This corrects nilfs_page_mkwrite() and will resolve the data loss
      problem in mmap write.
      
      [This should be applied to every kernel since 2.6.30 but a fix is
       needed for 2.6.37 and prior kernels]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
      Tested-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
      Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>  [2.6.38]
      34094537
  2. 29 Mar, 2011 39 commits