3.2.79-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
commit ed8ad83808f009ade97ebbf6519bc3a97fefbc0c upstream.
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.
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
- s/READ_ONCE/ACCESS_ONCE/
- Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -595,6 +595,34 @@ int ext4_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, st
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 = ACCESS_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
@@ -625,7 +653,7 @@ static int _ext4_get_block(struct inode
ret = ext4_map_blocks(handle, inode, &map, flags);
if (ret > 0) {
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);
bh->b_size = inode->i_sb->s_blocksize * map.m_len;
ret = 0;
}
@@ -1787,7 +1815,7 @@ static int ext4_da_get_block_prep(struct
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
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