Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 3.17 276/319] mm: Remove false WARN_ON from pagecache_isize_extended() | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:16:54 +0900 |
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3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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 <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- 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)
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