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    ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer() · 53e87268
    Jan Kara authored
    
    
    We cannot wait for transaction commit in journal_unmap_buffer()
    because we hold page lock which ranks below transaction start.  We
    solve the issue by bailing out of journal_unmap_buffer() and
    jbd2_journal_invalidatepage() with -EBUSY.  Caller is then responsible
    for waiting for transaction commit to finish and try invalidation
    again. Since the issue can happen only for page stradding i_size, it
    is simple enough to manually call jbd2_journal_invalidatepage() for
    such page from ext4_setattr(), check the return value and wait if
    necessary.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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