ext4: use private version of page_zero_new_buffers() for data=journal mode
commit b90197b6 upstream. If there is a error while copying data from userspace into the page cache during a write(2) system call, in data=journal mode, in ext4_journalled_write_end() were using page_zero_new_buffers() from fs/buffer.c. Unfortunately, this sets the buffer dirty flag, which is no good if journalling is enabled. This is a long-standing bug that goes back for years and years in ext3, but a combination of (a) data=journal not being very common, (b) in many case it only results in a warning message. and (c) only very rarely causes the kernel hang, means that we only really noticed this as a problem when commit 998ef75d caused this failure to happen frequently enough to cause generic/208 to fail when run in data=journal mode. The fix is to have our own version of this function that doesn't call mark_dirty_buffer(), since we will end up calling ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() on the buffer head(s) in questions very shortly afterwards in ext4_journalled_write_end(). Thanks to Dave Hansen and Linus Torvalds for helping to identify the root cause of the problem. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context, indentation] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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