[PATCH] resierfs: fix reiserfs_invalidatepage race against data=ordered

After a transaction has closed but before it has finished commit, there is
a window where data=ordered mode requires invalidatepage to pin pages
instead of freeing them.  This patch fixes a race between the
invalidatepage checks and data=ordered writeback, and it also adds a check
to the reiserfs write_ordered_buffers routines to write any anonymous
buffers that were dirtied after its first writeback loop.

That bug works like this:

proc1: transaction closes and a new one starts
proc1: write_ordered_buffers starts processing data=ordered list
proc1: buffer A is cleaned and written
proc2: buffer A is dirtied by another process
proc2: File is truncated to zero, page A goes through invalidatepage
proc2: reiserfs_invalidatepage sees dirty buffer A with reiserfs
       journal head, pins it
proc1: write_ordered_buffers frees the journal head on buffer A

At this point, buffer A stays dirty forever

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
index 2d04efb22ee..bc8fe963b3c 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
@@ -877,6 +877,19 @@ static int write_ordered_buffers(spinlock_t * lock,
 		if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
 			ret = -EIO;
 		}
+		/* ugly interaction with invalidatepage here.
+		 * reiserfs_invalidate_page will pin any buffer that has a valid
+		 * journal head from an older transaction.  If someone else sets
+		 * our buffer dirty after we write it in the first loop, and
+		 * then someone truncates the page away, nobody will ever write
+		 * the buffer. We're safe if we write the page one last time
+		 * after freeing the journal header.
+		 */
+		if (buffer_dirty(bh) && unlikely(bh->b_page->mapping == NULL)) {
+			spin_unlock(lock);
+			ll_rw_block(WRITE, 1, &bh);
+			spin_lock(lock);
+		}
 		put_bh(bh);
 		cond_resched_lock(lock);
 	}