ceph: writepage grabs and releases inode

Fixes a deadlock that is triggered due to kswapd, while the page was locked and the iput couldn't tear down the address space. Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
git-mirror · Dec 22, 2009 · dbd646a · dbd646a
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commit dbd646a
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diff --git a/fs/ceph/addr.c b/fs/ceph/addr.c
@@ -448,8 +448,13 @@ static int writepage_nounlock(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 
 static int ceph_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
-	int err = writepage_nounlock(page, wbc);
+	int err;
+	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+	BUG_ON(!inode);
+	igrab(inode);
+	err = writepage_nounlock(page, wbc);
 	unlock_page(page);
+	iput(inode);
 	return err;
 }