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    NFS: Prevent a deadlock in the new writeback code · 3aff4ebb
    Trond Myklebust authored
    We have to unlock the nfs_page before we call nfs_end_page_writeback
    to avoid races with functions that expect the page to be unlocked
    when PG_locked and PG_writeback are not set.
    The problem is that nfs_unlock_request also releases the nfs_page,
    causing a deadlock if the release of the nfs_open_context
    triggers an iput() while the PG_writeback flag is still set...
    
    The solution is to separate the unlocking and release of the nfs_page,
    so that we can do the former before nfs_end_page_writeback and the
    latter after.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
    Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
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