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tmpfs: fix spurious ENOSPC when racing with unswap
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Wed, 11 May 2011 22:13:38 +0000 (15:13 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 12 May 2011 01:50:45 +0000 (18:50 -0700)
commit4201b29e816cd4f0f0b84560942d6fad832d38cb
tree792b1f35e11e0f49170b0d306d45706de54afeae
parent3ef34e05ad4722839c818d5cc796c41ae1ff8c20
tmpfs: fix spurious ENOSPC when racing with unswap

Testing the shmem_swaplist replacements for igrab() revealed another bug:
writes to /dev/loop0 on a tmpfs file which fills its filesystem were
sometimes failing with "Buffer I/O error"s.

These came from ENOSPC failures of shmem_getpage(), when racing with
swapoff: the same could happen when racing with another shmem_getpage(),
pulling the page in from swap in between our find_lock_page() and our
taking the info->lock (though not in the single-threaded loop case).

This is unacceptable, and surprising that I've not noticed it before:
it dates back many years, but (presumably) was made a lot easier to
reproduce in 2.6.36, which sited a page preallocation in the race window.

Fix it by rechecking the page cache before settling on an ENOSPC error.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/shmem.c