Implement individual lock for SEEK_END for ext4 which directly calls generic_file_llseek_size(). Signed-off-by: Eiichi Tsukata <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/file.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c index 69d65d49837b..6479f3066043 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/file.c +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c @@ -477,6 +477,16 @@ loff_t ext4_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence) default: return generic_file_llseek_size(file, offset, whence, maxbytes, i_size_read(inode)); + case SEEK_END: + /* + * protects against inode size race with write so that llseek + * doesn't see inode size being updated in generic_perform_write + */ + inode_lock_shared(inode); + offset = generic_file_llseek_size(file, offset, whence, + maxbytes, i_size_read(inode)); + inode_unlock_shared(inode); + return offset; case SEEK_HOLE: inode_lock_shared(inode); offset = iomap_seek_hole(inode, offset, &ext4_iomap_ops); -- 2.19.1
