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rmacklem
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V 27
2013-07-12T00:59:03.408458Z
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V 1005
MFC: r252673
A problem with the old NFS client where large writes to large files
would sometimes result in a corrupted file was reported via email.
This problem appears to have been caused by r251719 (reverting
r251719 fixed the problem). Although I have not been able to
reproduce this problem, I suspect it is caused by another thread
increasing np->n_size after the mtx_unlock(&np->n_mtx) but before
the vnode_pager_setsize() call. Since the np->n_mtx mutex serializes
updates to np->n_size, doing the vnode_pager_setsize() with the
mutex locked appears to avoid the problem.
Unfortunately, vnode_pager_setsize() where the new size is smaller,
cannot be called with a mutex held.
This patch returns the semantics to be close to pre-r251719 such that the
call to the vnode_pager_setsize() is only delayed until after the mutex is
unlocked when np->n_size is shrinking. Since the file is growing
when being written, I believe this will fix the corruption.

Tested by:	remy.nonnenmacher@activnetworks.com

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