The patch titled Subject: mm-fix-xip-fault-vs-truncate-race-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-fix-xip-fault-vs-truncate-race-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fix-xip-fault-vs-truncate-race-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fix-xip-fault-vs-truncate-race-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-fix-xip-fault-vs-truncate-race-fix switch to i_mmap_lock_read(), add comment in unmap_single_vma() Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/filemap_xip.c | 20 +++++++++++++------- mm/memory.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/filemap_xip.c~mm-fix-xip-fault-vs-truncate-race-fix mm/filemap_xip.c --- a/mm/filemap_xip.c~mm-fix-xip-fault-vs-truncate-race-fix +++ a/mm/filemap_xip.c @@ -255,17 +255,20 @@ again: __xip_unmap(mapping, vmf->pgoff); found: - /* We must recheck i_size under i_mmap_mutex */ - mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); + /* + * We must recheck i_size under i_mmap_rwsem to prevent races + * with truncation + */ + i_mmap_lock_read(mapping); size = (i_size_read(inode) + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; if (unlikely(vmf->pgoff >= size)) { - mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); + i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping); return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; } err = vm_insert_mixed(vma, (unsigned long)vmf->virtual_address, xip_pfn); - mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); + i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping); if (err == -ENOMEM) return VM_FAULT_OOM; /* @@ -290,8 +293,11 @@ found: if (error != -ENODATA) goto out; - /* We must recheck i_size under i_mmap_mutex */ - mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); + /* + * We must recheck i_size under i_mmap_rwsem to prevent races + * with truncation + */ + i_mmap_lock_read(mapping); size = (i_size_read(inode) + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; if (unlikely(vmf->pgoff >= size)) { @@ -309,7 +315,7 @@ found: ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE; unlock: - mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); + i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping); out: write_seqcount_end(&xip_sparse_seq); mutex_unlock(&xip_sparse_mutex); diff -puN mm/memory.c~mm-fix-xip-fault-vs-truncate-race-fix mm/memory.c --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-fix-xip-fault-vs-truncate-race-fix +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -1327,6 +1327,11 @@ static void unmap_single_vma(struct mmu_ * safe to do nothing in this case. */ if (vma->vm_file) { + /* + * Note that DAX uses i_mmap_lock to serialise + * against file truncate - truncate calls into + * unmap_single_vma(). + */ i_mmap_lock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); __unmap_hugepage_range_final(tlb, vma, start, end, NULL); i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are i-need-old-gcc.patch arch-alpha-kernel-systblss-remove-debug-check.patch fanotify-dont-recalculate-a-marks-mask-if-only-the-ignored-mask-changed-checkpatch-fixes.patch fanotify-dont-set-fan_ondir-implicitly-on-a-marks-ignored-mask-checkpatch-fixes.patch input-route-kbd-leds-through-the-generic-leds-layer.patch o2dlm-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-o2dlm_blocking_ast_wrapper.patch ocfs2-add-functions-to-add-and-remove-inode-in-orphan-dir.patch mm.patch mm-fix-xip-fault-vs-truncate-race-fix.patch mm-allow-page-fault-handlers-to-perform-the-cow-fix.patch daxext2-replace-the-xip-page-fault-handler-with-the-dax-page-fault-handler-fix.patch dax-add-dax_zero_page_range-fix.patch mm-replace-remap_file_pages-syscall-with-emulation.patch mm-page_allocc-__alloc_pages_nodemask-dont-alter-arg-gfp_mask.patch x86-add-pmd_-for-thp-fix.patch sparc-add-pmd_-for-thp-fix.patch do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.patch task_mmu-add-user-space-support-for-resetting-mm-hiwater_rss-peak-rss.patch lib-bitmap-update-bitmap_onto-to-unsigned-checkpatch-fixes.patch lib-bitmap-change-parameters-of-bitmap_fold-to-unsigned-fix.patch hexdump-makes-it-return-amount-of-bytes-placed-in-buffer-fix.patch fs-befs-linuxvfsc-remove-unnecessary-casting-fix.patch linux-next.patch drivers-gpio-gpio-zevioc-fix-build.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug-fix.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html