On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 10:08 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me > know. > > ------------------ > > From: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> > > commit eb5efbcb762aee4b454b04f7115f73ccbcf8f0ef upstream. > > The write_end() function must always unlock the page and drop its ref > count, even on an error.
This looks like a theoretical rather than a real issue, because I can't
see how ext4_write_inline_data_end() ever returns an error code.
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> ---
> fs/ext4/inline.c | 9 ++++++++-
> fs/ext4/inode.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
> 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/fs/ext4/inline.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c
> @@ -933,8 +933,15 @@ int ext4_da_write_inline_data_end(struct
> > struct page *page)
> {
> int i_size_changed = 0;
> + int ret;
>
> - copied = ext4_write_inline_data_end(inode, pos, len, copied, page);
> + ret = ext4_write_inline_data_end(inode, pos, len, copied, page);
> + if (ret < 0) {
> + unlock_page(page);
> + put_page(page);
[...]
For 4.4 each put_page() should ideally be changed to
page_cache_release(). It makes no practical difference but would be
consistent with other paths.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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