linux/mm
Trond Myklebust e3db7691e9 [PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()
NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()

    invalidate_inode_pages2() may find the dirty bit has been set on a page
    owing to the fact that the page may still be mapped after it was locked.
    Only after the call to unmap_mapping_range() are we sure that the page
    can no longer be dirtied.
    In order to fix this, NFS has hooked the releasepage() method and tries
    to write the page out between the call to unmap_mapping_range() and the
    call to remove_mapping(). This, however leads to deadlocks in the page
    reclaim code, where the page may be locked without holding a reference
    to the inode or dentry.

    Fix is to add a new address_space_operation, launder_page(), which will
    attempt to write out a dirty page without releasing the page lock.

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

    Also, the bare SetPageDirty() can skew all sort of accounting leading to
    other nasties.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-11 18:18:21 -08:00
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allocpercpu.c [PATCH] Allow NULL pointers in percpu_free 2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
backing-dev.c [PATCH] separate bdi congestion functions from queue congestion functions 2006-10-20 10:26:35 -07:00
bootmem.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
bounce.c [PATCH] BLOCK: Separate the bounce buffering code from the highmem code [try #6] 2006-09-30 20:32:11 +02:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] mm: change uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:43 -08:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] mm: more rmap debugging 2006-12-22 08:55:49 -08:00
filemap.c [PATCH] dio: only call aio_complete() after returning -EIOCBQUEUED 2006-12-10 09:57:21 -08:00
filemap.h Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h> 2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
fremap.c [PATCH] mm: more rmap debugging 2006-12-22 08:55:49 -08:00
highmem.c [PATCH] BLOCK: Separate the bounce buffering code from the highmem code [try #6] 2006-09-30 20:32:11 +02:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] Pass vma argument to copy_user_highpage(). 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
internal.h [PATCH] mm: VM_BUG_ON 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
Kconfig Fix "can not" in Documentation and Kconfig 2006-10-03 22:53:09 +02:00
madvise.c [PATCH] Fix MADV_REMOVE protection checking 2006-04-17 18:22:18 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] separate bdi congestion functions from queue congestion functions 2006-10-20 10:26:35 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell 2007-01-11 18:18:20 -08:00
memory.c [ARM] pass vma for flush_anon_page() 2007-01-08 19:49:54 +00:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] struct path: convert mm 2006-12-08 08:28:47 -08:00
mempool.c [PATCH] dm: work around mempool_alloc, bio_alloc_bioset deadlocks 2006-09-01 11:39:09 -07:00
migrate.c [PATCH] radix-tree: RCU lockless readside 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
mincore.c [PATCH] sys_mincore: s/max/min/ 2006-12-17 10:21:53 -08:00
mlock.c [PATCH] mlock cleanup 2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
mmap.c [PATCH] mm: change uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:43 -08:00
mmzone.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] paravirt: lazy mmu mode hooks.patch 2006-10-01 00:39:33 -07:00
mremap.c [PATCH] paravirt: lazy mmu mode hooks.patch 2006-10-01 00:39:33 -07:00
msync.c [PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup 2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
nommu.c [PATCH] struct path: convert mm 2006-12-08 08:28:47 -08:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] fix OOM killing of swapoff 2007-01-05 23:55:29 -08:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell 2007-01-11 18:18:20 -08:00
page_io.c [PATCH] swsusp: use block device offsets to identify swap locations 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
page-writeback.c VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback 2006-12-29 10:00:58 -08:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c [PATCH] io-accounting-read-accounting nfs fix 2006-12-10 09:55:41 -08:00
rmap.c [PATCH] page_mkclean_one(): fix call to set_pte_at() 2006-12-30 10:56:42 -08:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] Fix typos in mm/shmem_acl.c 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
shmem.c [PATCH] Fix for shmem_truncate_range() BUG_ON() 2006-12-22 08:55:47 -08:00
slab.c [PATCH] fix BUG_ON(!PageSlab) from fallback_alloc 2007-01-05 23:55:23 -08:00
slob.c [PATCH] MM: SLOB is broken by recent cleanup of slab.h 2006-12-30 10:56:42 -08:00
sparse.c [PATCH] numa node ids are int, page_to_nid and zone_to_nid should return int 2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] lockdep: locking init debugging improvement 2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
swap.c [PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use 2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] swsusp: Do not fail if resume device is not set 2007-01-05 23:55:22 -08:00
thrash.c [PATCH] make mm/thrash.c:global_faults static 2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] struct path: convert mm 2006-12-08 08:28:47 -08:00
truncate.c [PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page() 2007-01-11 18:18:21 -08:00
util.c [PATCH] slab: clean up leak tracking ifdefs a little bit 2006-10-04 07:55:13 -07:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] Fix strange size check in __get_vm_area_node() 2006-11-16 11:43:38 -08:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] shrink_all_memory(): fix lru_pages handling 2007-01-05 23:55:29 -08:00
vmstat.c [PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification 2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00