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-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c17
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index ce278b3ae7f..ef77fd88c8e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -2841,8 +2841,8 @@ xfs_iflush(
mp = ip->i_mount;
/*
- * If the inode isn't dirty, then just release the inode
- * flush lock and do nothing.
+ * If the inode isn't dirty, then just release the inode flush lock and
+ * do nothing.
*/
if (xfs_inode_clean(ip)) {
xfs_ifunlock(ip);
@@ -2868,6 +2868,19 @@ xfs_iflush(
xfs_iunpin_wait(ip);
/*
+ * For stale inodes we cannot rely on the backing buffer remaining
+ * stale in cache for the remaining life of the stale inode and so
+ * xfs_itobp() below may give us a buffer that no longer contains
+ * inodes below. We have to check this after ensuring the inode is
+ * unpinned so that it is safe to reclaim the stale inode after the
+ * flush call.
+ */
+ if (xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_ISTALE)) {
+ xfs_ifunlock(ip);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /*
* This may have been unpinned because the filesystem is shutting
* down forcibly. If that's the case we must not write this inode
* to disk, because the log record didn't make it to disk!