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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>, djwong <djwong@us.ibm.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mingming Cao <mcao@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] block integrity: Fix write after checksum calculation problem
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:57:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110412005719.GA23077@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302569212.2580.13.camel@mingming-laptop>

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 05:46:52PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> Oh, right. Currently ext4_page_mkwrite drops the page lock before
> calling it's dirty the page (by write_begin() and write_end().  I
> suspect regrab the lock() after write_end() (with your proposed change)
> and returning with locked still leave the dirty by ext4_page_mkwrite
> unlocked.  We probably should to keep the page locked the page during
> the entire ext4_page_mkwrite() call. Any reason to drop the page lock()
> before calling aops->write_begin()?

write_begin takes the page lock by itself.  That's one of the reasons why
block_page_mkwrite doesn't use plain ->write_begin / write_end, the
other beeing that we already get a page passed to use, so there's no
need to do the pagecache lookup or allocation done by
grab_cache_page_write_begin.

The best thing would be to completely drop ext4's current version
of page_mkwrite and start out with a copy of block_page_mkwrite which
has the journalling calls added back into it.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-12  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-22  2:00 [RFC] block integrity: Fix write after checksum calculation problem Darrick J. Wong
2011-02-22  5:45 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-02-22 11:42   ` Jan Kara
2011-02-22 13:02     ` Chris Mason
2011-02-22 19:13       ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-03-04 20:51     ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-03-04 20:53       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-02-22 16:13 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-02-22 16:40   ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-02-22 19:45   ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-02-22 22:53     ` Dave Chinner
2011-02-23 16:24       ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-02-23 23:47         ` Dave Chinner
2011-02-24 16:43         ` Jan Kara
2011-02-28  8:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-02-22 16:45 ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-02-23 20:24   ` Joel Becker
2011-02-23 20:35     ` Chris Mason
2011-02-23 21:42       ` Joel Becker
2011-02-24 16:47       ` Jan Kara
2011-02-24 17:37         ` Chris Mason
2011-02-24 18:27           ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-02-28 12:54             ` Chris Mason
2011-03-04 21:07               ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-03-04 22:22                 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-03-07 19:11                   ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-03-07 21:12                 ` Chris Mason
2011-03-08  4:56                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-10 23:57                   ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-03-11 16:34                     ` Chris Mason
2011-03-11 18:51                       ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-03-19  0:07                   ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-03-19  2:28                     ` Andreas Dilger
2011-03-22 19:23                       ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-03-22 21:54                         ` Jan Kara
2011-03-21 14:04                     ` Jan Kara
2011-03-21 14:24                       ` Chris Mason
2011-03-21 16:43                         ` Jan Kara
2011-04-06 23:29                           ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-04-07 16:44                             ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-04-07 16:57                             ` Jan Kara
2011-04-08 20:31                               ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-04-11 16:42                                 ` Jeff Layton
2011-04-11 17:41                                   ` Chris Mason
2011-04-11 18:25                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-11 18:38                                       ` Chris Mason
2011-04-12  0:46                                     ` Mingming Cao
2011-04-12  0:57                                       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-04-14  0:48                                         ` Mingming Cao
2011-04-22  0:02                                           ` [RFC v2] block integrity: Stabilize(?) pages during writeback Darrick J. Wong
2011-04-22 12:50                                             ` Chris Mason
2011-04-22 20:34                                               ` Jan Kara
2011-04-26  0:37                                                 ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-04-26 11:33                                                   ` Chris Mason
2011-05-03  1:59                                                     ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-05-04  1:26                                                       ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-04-26 11:37                                                   ` Jan Kara
2011-05-04 17:37                                             ` [PATCH v3 0/3] data integrity: Stabilize pages during writeback for ext4 Darrick J. Wong
2011-05-04 18:46                                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-04 19:21                                                 ` Chris Mason
2011-05-04 20:00                                                   ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-05-04 23:57                                                   ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-05-05 15:26                                                     ` Jan Kara
2011-05-04 17:39                                             ` [PATCH v3 1/3] ext4: Clean up some wait_on_page_writeback calls Darrick J. Wong
2011-05-04 17:41                                             ` [PATCH v3 2/3] ext4: Wait for writeback to complete while making pages writable Darrick J. Wong
2011-05-04 17:42                                             ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mm: Wait for writeback when grabbing pages to begin a write Darrick J. Wong
2011-05-04 18:48                                               ` Christoph Hellwig

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