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ext4: Fix lock inversion in ext4_ext_truncate()

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We cannot call ext4_orphan_add() from under i_data_sem because that
causes a lock ordering violation between i_data_sem and and the
superblock lock.

Updated with Aneesh's locking order fix

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> 
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Jan Kara 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent cf108bca46
commit 9ddfc3dc75
1 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
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fs/ext4/extents.c
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@ -2768,6 +2768,9 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
if (inode->i_size & (sb->s_blocksize - 1))
ext4_block_truncate_page(handle, mapping, inode->i_size);
if (ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode))
goto out_stop;
down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
ext4_ext_invalidate_cache(inode);
@ -2778,8 +2781,6 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
* Probably we need not scan at all,
* because page truncation is enough.
*/
if (ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode))
goto out_stop;
/* we have to know where to truncate from in crash case */
EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = inode->i_size;
@ -2796,6 +2797,7 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
handle->h_sync = 1;
out_stop:
up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
/*
* If this was a simple ftruncate() and the file will remain alive,
* then we need to clear up the orphan record which we created above.
@ -2806,7 +2808,6 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
if (inode->i_nlink)
ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode);
up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);
ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
ext4_journal_stop(handle);