On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:31:06AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We recently changed how the locking worked here, but this error path was
> missed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>

Sorry, it is my fault.  Thanks for pointing out this bug.

Regards,
Zheng

> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index 8c84070..2728fb7 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -3031,8 +3031,10 @@ static ssize_t ext4_ext_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb 
> *iocb,
>               if (!is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
>                       ext4_io_end_t *io_end =
>                               ext4_init_io_end(inode, GFP_NOFS);
> -                     if (!io_end)
> -                             return -ENOMEM;
> +                     if (!io_end) {
> +                             ret = -ENOMEM;
> +                             goto retake_lock;
> +                     }
>                       io_end->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_DIRECT;
>                       iocb->private = io_end;
>                       /*
> @@ -3094,6 +3096,7 @@ static ssize_t ext4_ext_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb 
> *iocb,
>                       ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN);
>               }
>  
> +retake_lock:
>               /* take i_mutex locking again if we do a ovewrite dio */
>               if (overwrite) {
>                       up_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
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