-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Vladimir V. Saveliev generic_file_buffered_write() prefaults in user pages in order to avoid deadlock on copying from the same page as write goes to. However, it looks like there is a problem when write is vectored: fault_in_pages_readable brings in current segment or its part (maxlen). OTOH, filemap_copy_from_user_iovec is called to copy number of bytes (bytes) which may exceed current segment, so filemap_copy_from_user_iovec switches to the next segment which is not brought in yet. Pagefault is generated. That causes the deadlock if pagefault is for the same page write goes to: page being written is locked and not uptodate, pagefault will deadlock trying to lock locked page. [akpm@osdl.org: somewhat rewritten] Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- mm/filemap.c | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.17.1.orig/mm/filemap.c +++ linux-2.6.17.1/mm/filemap.c @@ -2004,14 +2004,21 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb do { unsigned long index; unsigned long offset; - unsigned long maxlen; size_t copied; offset = (pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE -1)); /* Within page */ index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; bytes = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset; - if (bytes > count) - bytes = count; + + /* Limit the size of the copy to the caller's write size */ + bytes = min(bytes, count); + + /* + * Limit the size of the copy to that of the current segment, + * because fault_in_pages_readable() doesn't know how to walk + * segments. + */ + bytes = min(bytes, cur_iov->iov_len - iov_base); /* * Bring in the user page that we will copy from _first_. @@ -2019,10 +2026,7 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb * same page as we're writing to, without it being marked * up-to-date. */ - maxlen = cur_iov->iov_len - iov_base; - if (maxlen > bytes) - maxlen = bytes; - fault_in_pages_readable(buf, maxlen); + fault_in_pages_readable(buf, bytes); page = __grab_cache_page(mapping,index,&cached_page,&lru_pvec); if (!page) { --