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author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2011-04-21 23:47:16 +0200 |
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committer | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2011-04-29 23:20:03 +0200 |
commit | ae54870a1dc978a88377ae8af0780648f2ccd4dc (patch) | |
tree | 220268d2087adac3191a54805dd6c0c203d50606 /block | |
parent | fafc9929c668f8bae6dd1f109f33a86d2cb3c460 (diff) | |
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ext3: Fix lock inversion in ext3_symlink()
ext3_symlink() cannot call __page_symlink() with transaction open.
__page_symlink() calls ext3_write_begin() which gets page lock which ranks
above transaction start (thus lock ordering is violated) and and also
ext3_write_begin() waits for a transaction commit when we run out of space
which never happens if we hold transaction open.
Fix the problem by stopping a transaction before calling __page_symlink()
(we have to be careful and put inode to orphan list so that it gets deleted
in case of crash) and starting another one after __page_symlink() returns
for addition of symlink into a directory.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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