From: Nikita Danilov When ->writepage() returns WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE, the page is still locked. Explicitly unlock the page in mpage_writepages(). Signed-off-by: Nikita Danilov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/mpage.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/mpage.c~mpage_writepages-page-locking-fix fs/mpage.c --- 25/fs/mpage.c~mpage_writepages-page-locking-fix Wed Apr 27 16:53:15 2005 +++ 25-akpm/fs/mpage.c Wed Apr 27 16:53:15 2005 @@ -727,6 +727,8 @@ retry: &last_block_in_bio, &ret, wbc, writepage_fn); } + if (unlikely(ret == WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE)) + unlock_page(page); if (ret || (--(wbc->nr_to_write) <= 0)) done = 1; if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) { _