This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix races of writeback with punch hole and zero range to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ext4-fix-races-of-writeback-with-punch-hole-and-zero-range.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 011278485ecc3cd2a3954b5d4c73101d919bf1fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 14:34:49 -0500 Subject: ext4: fix races of writeback with punch hole and zero range From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> commit 011278485ecc3cd2a3954b5d4c73101d919bf1fa upstream. When doing delayed allocation, update of on-disk inode size is postponed until IO submission time. However hole punch or zero range fallocate calls can end up discarding the tail page cache page and thus on-disk inode size would never be properly updated. Make sure the on-disk inode size is updated before truncating page cache. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 3 +++ fs/ext4/extents.c | 5 +++++ fs/ext4/inode.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -2881,6 +2881,9 @@ static inline int ext4_update_inode_size return changed; } +int ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, + loff_t len); + struct ext4_group_info { unsigned long bb_state; struct rb_root bb_free_root; --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -4847,6 +4847,11 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file * released from page cache. */ down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem); + ret = ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(inode, offset, len); + if (ret) { + up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem); + goto out_dio; + } /* Now release the pages and zero block aligned part of pages */ truncate_pagecache_range(inode, start, end - 1); inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode); --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -3587,6 +3587,35 @@ int ext4_can_truncate(struct inode *inod } /* + * We have to make sure i_disksize gets properly updated before we truncate + * page cache due to hole punching or zero range. Otherwise i_disksize update + * can get lost as it may have been postponed to submission of writeback but + * that will never happen after we truncate page cache. + */ +int ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, + loff_t len) +{ + handle_t *handle; + loff_t size = i_size_read(inode); + + WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex)); + if (offset > size || offset + len < size) + return 0; + + if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize >= size) + return 0; + + handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MISC, 1); + if (IS_ERR(handle)) + return PTR_ERR(handle); + ext4_update_i_disksize(inode, size); + ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); + ext4_journal_stop(handle); + + return 0; +} + +/* * ext4_punch_hole: punches a hole in a file by releaseing the blocks * associated with the given offset and length * @@ -3664,9 +3693,13 @@ int ext4_punch_hole(struct inode *inode, last_block_offset = round_down((offset + length), sb->s_blocksize) - 1; /* Now release the pages and zero block aligned part of pages*/ - if (last_block_offset > first_block_offset) + if (last_block_offset > first_block_offset) { + ret = ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(inode, offset, length); + if (ret) + goto out_dio; truncate_pagecache_range(inode, first_block_offset, last_block_offset); + } if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ext4-fix-races-between-page-faults-and-hole-punching.patch queue-4.4/ext4-move-unlocked-dio-protection-from-ext4_alloc_file_blocks.patch queue-4.4/ext4-fix-races-between-buffered-io-and-collapse-insert-range.patch queue-4.4/ext4-fix-races-of-writeback-with-punch-hole-and-zero-range.patch -- 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