Re: More information on reiserfs bug

[Chris Mason]

On Tuesday, January 16, 2001 07:38:58 PM +0100 Jakob Borg
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> It seems the problem occurs every time i start fetchmail... Attached are
> ksymoops output and .config (if i remember this time). If there is
> anything else I can do to help debug this, just tell me

Linus fixed that hunk of debugging code in his merge, and it found a bug in
the reiserfs O_SYNC support.  reiserfs_commit_write needs to hold the BKL.

This should fix it:

--- linux/fs/reiserfs/inode.c.1	Tue Jan 16 13:46:35 2001
+++ linux/fs/reiserfs/inode.c	Tue Jan 16 13:49:21 2001
@@ -1853,6 +1853,11 @@
     struct reiserfs_transaction_handle th ;
     
     reiserfs_wait_on_write_block(inode->i_sb) ;
+
+    /* prevent_flush_page_lock must be called before generic_commit_write,
+    ** and the BKL must be held during the call.
+    */
+    lock_kernel() ;
     prevent_flush_page_lock(page, inode) ;
     ret = generic_commit_write(f, page, from, to) ;
     /* we test for O_SYNC here so we can commit the transaction
@@ -1866,6 +1871,8 @@
 	journal_end_sync(&th, inode->i_sb, 1) ;
     }
     allow_flush_page_lock(page, inode) ;
+    unlock_kernel() ;
+
     return ret ;
 }