[PATCH] fix race in pagevec_strip?

We can call try_to_release_page() with PagePrivate off and a valid
page->mapping This may cause all sorts of trouble for the filesystem
*_releasepage() handlers.  XFS bombs out in that case.

Lock the page before checking for page private.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christoph Lameter 2006-03-16 23:04:07 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8ba32fde2c
commit 5b40dc780e
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -393,6 +393,7 @@ void pagevec_strip(struct pagevec *pvec)
struct page *page = pvec->pages[i];
if (PagePrivate(page) && !TestSetPageLocked(page)) {
if (PagePrivate(page))
try_to_release_page(page, 0);
unlock_page(page);
}