[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] gfs2: Fix mmap locking for write faults

[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] gfs2: Fix mmap locking for write faults

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

When a write fault occurs, we need to take the inode glock of the underlying
inode in exclusive mode.  Otherwise, there's no guarantee that the dirty page
will be written back to disk.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
---
 fs/gfs2/file.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/file.c b/fs/gfs2/file.c
index 493a83e3f590..8a35a0196b6d 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/file.c
@@ -540,9 +540,11 @@ static vm_fault_t gfs2_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	struct gfs2_inode *ip = GFS2_I(inode);
 	struct gfs2_holder gh;
 	vm_fault_t ret;
+	u16 state;
 	int err;
 
-	gfs2_holder_init(ip->i_gl, LM_ST_SHARED, 0, &gh);
+	state = (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) ? LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE : LM_ST_SHARED;
+	gfs2_holder_init(ip->i_gl, state, 0, &gh);
 	err = gfs2_glock_nq(&gh);
 	if (err) {
 		ret = block_page_mkwrite_return(err);
-- 
2.26.3