NFS: Fix another nfs_wb_page() deadlock

J.R. Okajima reports that the call to sync_inode() in nfs_wb_page() can
deadlock with other writeback flush calls. It boils down to the fact
that we cannot ever call writeback_single_inode() while holding a page
lock (even if we do set nr_to_write to zero) since another process may
already be waiting in the call to do_writepages(), and so will deny us
the I_SYNC lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index b8a6d7a..91679e2 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -1518,14 +1518,17 @@ int nfs_wb_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page)
 	};
 	int ret;
 
-	while(PagePrivate(page)) {
+	for (;;) {
 		wait_on_page_writeback(page);
 		if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
 			ret = nfs_writepage_locked(page, &wbc);
 			if (ret < 0)
 				goto out_error;
+			continue;
 		}
-		ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
+		if (!PagePrivate(page))
+			break;
+		ret = nfs_commit_inode(inode, FLUSH_SYNC);
 		if (ret < 0)
 			goto out_error;
 	}