Ping on that one, it seems it's going to miss the 4.5 merge window? On 01/07/2016 06:55 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> > > ext4 can update bh->b_state non-atomically in _ext4_get_block() and > ext4_da_get_block_prep(). Usually this is fine since bh is just a > temporary storage for mapping information on stack but in some cases it > can be fully living bh attached to a page. In such case non-atomic > update of bh->b_state can race with an atomic update which then gets > lost. Usually when we are mapping bh and thus updating bh->b_state > non-atomically, nobody else touches the bh and so things work out fine > but there is one case to especially worry about: ext4_finish_bio() uses > BH_Uptodate_Lock on the first bh in the page to synchronize handling of > PageWriteback state. So when blocksize < pagesize, we can be atomically > modifying bh->b_state of a buffer that actually isn't under IO and thus > can race e.g. with delalloc trying to map that buffer. The result is > that we can mistakenly set / clear BH_Uptodate_Lock bit resulting in the > corruption of PageWriteback state or missed unlock of BH_Uptodate_Lock. > > Fix the problem by always updating bh->b_state bits atomically. > > CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > --- > fs/ext4/inode.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c > index ea433a7f4bca..06bda0361e7c 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c > @@ -657,6 +657,34 @@ has_zeroout: > return retval; > } > > +/* > + * Update EXT4_MAP_FLAGS in bh->b_state. For buffer heads attached to pages > + * we have to be careful as someone else may be manipulating b_state as well. > + */ > +static void ext4_update_bh_state(struct buffer_head *bh, unsigned long flags) > +{ > + unsigned long old_state; > + unsigned long new_state; > + > + flags &= EXT4_MAP_FLAGS; > + > + /* Dummy buffer_head? Set non-atomically. */ > + if (!bh->b_page) { > + bh->b_state = (bh->b_state & ~EXT4_MAP_FLAGS) | flags; > + return; > + } > + /* > + * Someone else may be modifying b_state. Be careful! This is ugly but > + * once we get rid of using bh as a container for mapping information > + * to pass to / from get_block functions, this can go away. > + */ > + do { > + old_state = READ_ONCE(bh->b_state); > + new_state = (old_state & ~EXT4_MAP_FLAGS) | flags; > + } while (unlikely( > + cmpxchg(&bh->b_state, old_state, new_state) != old_state)); > +} > + > /* Maximum number of blocks we map for direct IO at once. */ > #define DIO_MAX_BLOCKS 4096 > > @@ -693,7 +721,7 @@ static int _ext4_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, > ext4_io_end_t *io_end = ext4_inode_aio(inode); > > map_bh(bh, inode->i_sb, map.m_pblk); > - bh->b_state = (bh->b_state & ~EXT4_MAP_FLAGS) | map.m_flags; > + ext4_update_bh_state(bh, map.m_flags); > if (IS_DAX(inode) && buffer_unwritten(bh)) { > /* > * dgc: I suspect unwritten conversion on ext4+DAX is > @@ -1669,7 +1697,7 @@ int ext4_da_get_block_prep(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, > return ret; > > map_bh(bh, inode->i_sb, map.m_pblk); > - bh->b_state = (bh->b_state & ~EXT4_MAP_FLAGS) | map.m_flags; > + ext4_update_bh_state(bh, map.m_flags); > > if (buffer_unwritten(bh)) { > /* A delayed write to unwritten bh should be marked > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html