Merge branch 'linux-linaro-lsk-v4.4' into linux-linaro-lsk-v4.4-android

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index e31d762eedce..9a5ad0f0d3ed 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -205,9 +205,9 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 		 * Note that directories do not have this problem because they
 		 * don't use page cache.
 		 */
-		if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode) &&
-		    (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) &&
-		    inode->i_ino != EXT4_JOURNAL_INO) {
+		if (inode->i_ino != EXT4_JOURNAL_INO &&
+		    ext4_should_journal_data(inode) &&
+		    (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))) {
 			journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
 			tid_t commit_tid = EXT4_I(inode)->i_datasync_tid;
 
@@ -2589,13 +2589,36 @@ retry:
 				done = true;
 			}
 		}
-		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+		/*
+		 * Caution: If the handle is synchronous,
+		 * ext4_journal_stop() can wait for transaction commit
+		 * to finish which may depend on writeback of pages to
+		 * complete or on page lock to be released.  In that
+		 * case, we have to wait until after after we have
+		 * submitted all the IO, released page locks we hold,
+		 * and dropped io_end reference (for extent conversion
+		 * to be able to complete) before stopping the handle.
+		 */
+		if (!ext4_handle_valid(handle) || handle->h_sync == 0) {
+			ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+			handle = NULL;
+		}
 		/* Submit prepared bio */
 		ext4_io_submit(&mpd.io_submit);
 		/* Unlock pages we didn't use */
 		mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write);
-		/* Drop our io_end reference we got from init */
-		ext4_put_io_end(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
+		/*
+		 * Drop our io_end reference we got from init. We have
+		 * to be careful and use deferred io_end finishing if
+		 * we are still holding the transaction as we can
+		 * release the last reference to io_end which may end
+		 * up doing unwritten extent conversion.
+		 */
+		if (handle) {
+			ext4_put_io_end_defer(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
+			ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+		} else
+			ext4_put_io_end(mpd.io_submit.io_end);
 
 		if (ret == -ENOSPC && sbi->s_journal) {
 			/*