This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page
to the 4.6-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:
tmpfs-don-t-undo-fallocate-past-its-last-page.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b9b4bb26af017dbe930cd4df7f9b2fc3a0497bfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Romano <anthony.romano@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:48:43 -0700
Subject: tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page
From: Anthony Romano <anthony.romano@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit b9b4bb26af017dbe930cd4df7f9b2fc3a0497bfe upstream.
When fallocate is interrupted it will undo a range that extends one byte
past its range of allocated pages. This can corrupt an in-use page by
zeroing out its first byte. Instead, undo using the inclusive byte
range.
Fixes: 1635f6a74152f1d ("tmpfs: undo fallocation on failure")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462713387-16724-1-git-send-email-anthony.romano@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Anthony Romano <anthony.romano@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2238,7 +2238,7 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file
/* Remove the !PageUptodate pages we added */
shmem_undo_range(inode,
(loff_t)start << PAGE_SHIFT,
- (loff_t)index << PAGE_SHIFT, true);
+ ((loff_t)index << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1, true);
goto undone;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anthony.romano@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.6/tmpfs-don-t-undo-fallocate-past-its-last-page.patch
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