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authorBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>2006-07-30 03:04:14 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-08-06 20:52:15 -0700
commitde877c1d977aa0b55952cb7325956e5bd59fc75f (patch)
tree37ae49a7aa347920b0d27010e8ba719ca52c100f
parentd267cf77ff0425cd0f3292aa312588baaf304bb5 (diff)
ext3 -nobh option causes oops
For files other than IFREG, nobh option doesn't make sense. Modifications to them are journalled and needs buffer heads to do that. Without this patch, we get kernel oops in page_buffers(). Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/inode.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
index 2edd7eec88f..59491297335 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@ retry:
ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
goto out;
}
- if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH))
+ if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && ext3_should_writeback_data(inode))
ret = nobh_prepare_write(page, from, to, ext3_get_block);
else
ret = block_prepare_write(page, from, to, ext3_get_block);
@@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ static int ext3_writeback_commit_write(struct file *file, struct page *page,
if (new_i_size > EXT3_I(inode)->i_disksize)
EXT3_I(inode)->i_disksize = new_i_size;
- if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH))
+ if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && ext3_should_writeback_data(inode))
ret = nobh_commit_write(file, page, from, to);
else
ret = generic_commit_write(file, page, from, to);
@@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ static int ext3_writeback_writepage(struct page *page,
goto out_fail;
}
- if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH))
+ if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && ext3_should_writeback_data(inode))
ret = nobh_writepage(page, ext3_get_block, wbc);
else
ret = block_write_full_page(page, ext3_get_block, wbc);