From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara , Dave Chinner , Dave Chinner Subject: [PATCH 3.17 276/319] mm: Remove false WARN_ON from pagecache_isize_extended() Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:16:54 +0900 Message-Id: <20141112011038.513548834@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20141112010952.553519040@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20141112010952.553519040@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jan Kara commit f55fefd1a5a339b1bd08c120b93312d6eb64a9fb upstream. The WARN_ON checking whether i_mutex is held in pagecache_isize_extended() was wrong because some filesystems (e.g. XFS) use different locks for serialization of truncates / writes. So just remove the check. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/truncate.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/mm/truncate.c @@ -755,7 +755,6 @@ void pagecache_isize_extended(struct ino struct page *page; pgoff_t index; - WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex)); WARN_ON(to > inode->i_size); if (from >= to || bsize == PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)