On Mon 08-04-13 18:27:43, Jan Kara wrote: > When ext4 is mounted in dioread_nolock mode, it calls > __blockdev_direct_IO() without DIO_LOCKING flag which also means mapping > is not synced before direct IO starts. As a result consistency between > buffered writes and following direct IO reads is broken. More > importantly, if the file is truncated, and extented back, zeroing of the > tail page is not visible to the following direct IO read which will return > stale data. > > Fix the problem by flushing dirty pages before issuing direct IO read. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Ted, didn't you miss this patch? Honza > --- > fs/ext4/indirect.c | 4 ++++ > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/indirect.c b/fs/ext4/indirect.c > index b505a14..c18bf1c 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/indirect.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/indirect.c > @@ -809,6 +809,10 @@ ssize_t ext4_ind_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, > > retry: > if (rw == READ && ext4_should_dioread_nolock(inode)) { > + ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, offset, > + offset + count - 1); > + if (ret) > + goto out; > if (unlikely(atomic_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_unwritten))) { > mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); > ext4_flush_unwritten_io(inode); > -- > 1.7.1 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html