ext4: fix races between changing inode journal mode and ext4_writepages In ext4, there is a race condition between changing inode journal mode and ext4_writepages(). While ext4_writepages() is executed on a non-journalled mode inode, the inode's journal mode could be enabled by ioctl() and then, some pages dirtied after switching the journal mode will be still exposed to ext4_writepages() in non-journaled mode. To resolve this problem, we use fs-wide per-cpu rw semaphore by Jan Kara's suggestion because we don't want to waste ext4_inode_info's space for this extra rare case. Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daeho.jeong@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
diff --git a/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c b/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c index f231e0b..bec0b64 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c +++ b/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ free_percpu(brw->fast_read_ctr); brw->fast_read_ctr = NULL; /* catch use after free bugs */ } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(percpu_free_rwsem); /* * This is the fast-path for down_read/up_read. If it succeeds we rely