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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
	Chris Wedgwood <reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org>,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
	Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@gmail.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: [patch 07/13] writeback: dont propagate AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:09:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071115060939.GH7602@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071115060544.GA7602@kroah.com>

[-- Attachment #1: writeback-don-t-propagate-aop_writepage_activate.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 945 bytes --]

-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

patch e423003028183df54f039dfda8b58c49e78c89d7 in mainline.

This is a writeback-internal marker but we're propagating it all the way back
to userspace!.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>


---
 mm/page-writeback.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -672,8 +672,10 @@ retry:
 
 			ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
 
-			if (unlikely(ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE))
+			if (unlikely(ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE)) {
 				unlock_page(page);
+				ret = 0;
+			}
 			if (ret || (--(wbc->nr_to_write) <= 0))
 				done = 1;
 			if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {

-- 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-15  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20071115042610.731859958@mini.kroah.org>
2007-11-15  6:05 ` [patch 00/13] 2.6.23-stable review, core kernel changes Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 01/13] lockdep: fix mismatched lockdep_depth/curr_chain_hash Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 02/13] locks: fix possible infinite loop in posix deadlock detection Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 03/13] Remove broken ptrace() special-case code from file mapping Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 04/13] param_sysfs_builtin memchr argument fix Greg KH
2007-11-15 16:11     ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-11-15 17:58       ` Greg KH
2007-11-15 20:46         ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-11-15 21:20           ` Jan Kiszka
2007-11-15 23:58             ` Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 05/13] HOWTO: update ja_JP/HOWTO with latest changes Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 06/13] SLUB: Fix memory leak by not reusing cpu_slab Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 08/13] splice: fix double kunmap() in vmsplice copy path Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 09/13] fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 10/13] sched: keep utime/stime monotonic Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 11/13] Fix compat futex hangs Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 12/13] fix tmpfs BUG and AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE Greg KH
2007-11-15  6:09   ` [patch 13/13] BLOCK: Fix bad sharing of tag busy list on queues with shared tag maps Greg KH

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