ext4: start handle at the last possible moment in ext4_unlink()
Don't start the jbd2 transaction handle until after the directory
entry has been found, to minimize the amount of time that a handle is
held active.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 5184103..4a27069 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2787,7 +2787,7 @@
struct inode *inode;
struct buffer_head *bh;
struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de;
- handle_t *handle;
+ handle_t *handle = NULL;
trace_ext4_unlink_enter(dir, dentry);
/* Initialize quotas before so that eventual writes go
@@ -2795,14 +2795,6 @@
dquot_initialize(dir);
dquot_initialize(dentry->d_inode);
- handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_HT_DIR,
- EXT4_DELETE_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb));
- if (IS_ERR(handle))
- return PTR_ERR(handle);
-
- if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
- ext4_handle_sync(handle);
-
retval = -ENOENT;
bh = ext4_find_entry(dir, &dentry->d_name, &de, NULL);
if (!bh)
@@ -2814,6 +2806,17 @@
if (le32_to_cpu(de->inode) != inode->i_ino)
goto end_unlink;
+ handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_HT_DIR,
+ EXT4_DELETE_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb));
+ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+ retval = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ handle = NULL;
+ goto end_unlink;
+ }
+
+ if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
+ ext4_handle_sync(handle);
+
if (!inode->i_nlink) {
ext4_warning(inode->i_sb,
"Deleting nonexistent file (%lu), %d",
@@ -2834,8 +2837,9 @@
retval = 0;
end_unlink:
- ext4_journal_stop(handle);
brelse(bh);
+ if (handle)
+ ext4_journal_stop(handle);
trace_ext4_unlink_exit(dentry, retval);
return retval;
}