From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756521AbdJJToY (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:44:24 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39248 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753507AbdJJToW (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:44:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:44:21 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Linus Torvalds , Johannes Thumshirn , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, OGAWA Hirofumi , Ross Zwisler , Toshi Kani , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix mpage_writepage() for pages with buffers Message-Id: <20171010124421.c545e6308fed5a585acd43cd@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20171006211541.GA7409@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20171006211541.GA7409@bombadil.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 14:15:41 -0700 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > When using FAT on a block device which supports rw_page, we can hit > BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)) in try_to_free_buffers(). This is because we > call clean_buffers() after unlocking the page we've written. Introduce a > new clean_page_buffers() which cleans all buffers associated with a page > and call it from within bdev_write_page(). This is all pretty mature code (isn't it?). Any idea why this bug popped up now?