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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Idan Kedar <idank@tonian.com>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <osd-dev@open-osd.org>,
	<solo@tonian.com>, <bhalevy@tonian.com>, <ilya@tonian.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exofs: clean up the correct page collection on write error
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:15:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B8BF8D.8050704@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50B8BE60.6090009@panasas.com>

On 11/30/2012 04:10 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 11/26/2012 04:49 PM, Idan Kedar wrote:
>> if ore_write() fails, we would unlock the pages of pcol, which is now
>> empty, rather than pcol_copy which owns the pages when ore_write() is
>> called. this means that no pages will actually be unlocked
>> (pcol.nr_pages == 0) and the writing process (more accurately, the
>> syncing process) will hang waiting for a writeback notification that
>> never comes.
>>
>> moreover, if ore_write() fails, pcol_free() is called for pcol, whereas
>> pcol_copy is the object owning the ore_io_state, thus leaking the
>> ore_io_state.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Idan Kedar <idank@tonian.com>
> 
> Thanks Idan, good catch.
> 
> I have simplified your patch a bit, see below. But basically it
> is all the same. Please check me out
> 

I forgot to ask do you need this for stable?

Boaz

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-30 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-26 14:49 [PATCH] exofs: clean up the correct page collection on write error Idan Kedar
2012-11-30 14:10 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-11-30 14:15   ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2012-11-30 14:26     ` [PATCH] exofs: don't leak io_state and pages on read error Boaz Harrosh
2012-11-30 14:28     ` [PATCH] exofs: Remove dead code in read_exec Boaz Harrosh
2012-12-02  9:57   ` [PATCH] exofs: clean up the correct page collection on write error Idan Kedar
2012-12-02 12:58     ` Boaz Harrosh

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