3.5.7.22 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Maxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 4a4ac4eba1010ef9a804569058ab29e3450c0315 upstream. The patch fixes a race between ftruncate(2), mmap-ed write and write(2): 1) An user makes a page dirty via mmap-ed write. 2) The user performs shrinking truncate(2) intended to purge the page. 3) Before fuse_do_setattr calls truncate_pagecache, the page goes to writeback. fuse_writepage_locked fills FUSE_WRITE request and releases the original page by end_page_writeback. 4) fuse_do_setattr() completes and successfully returns. Since now, i_mutex is free. 5) Ordinary write(2) extends i_size back to cover the page. Note that fuse_send_write_pages do wait for fuse writeback, but for another page->index. 6) fuse_writepage_locked proceeds by queueing FUSE_WRITE request. fuse_send_writepage is supposed to crop inarg->size of the request, but it doesn't because i_size has already been extended back. Moving end_page_writeback to the end of fuse_writepage_locked fixes the race because now the fact that truncate_pagecache is successfully returned infers that fuse_writepage_locked has already called end_page_writeback. And this, in turn, infers that fuse_flush_writepages has already called fuse_send_writepage, and the latter used valid (shrunk) i_size. write(2) could not extend it because of i_mutex held by ftruncate(2). Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fuse/file.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c index 514f12a..e7785e4 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/file.c +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c @@ -1296,7 +1296,6 @@ static int fuse_writepage_locked(struct page *page) inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_WRITEBACK); inc_zone_page_state(tmp_page, NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP); - end_page_writeback(page); spin_lock(&fc->lock); list_add(&req->writepages_entry, &fi->writepages); @@ -1304,6 +1303,8 @@ static int fuse_writepage_locked(struct page *page) fuse_flush_writepages(inode); spin_unlock(&fc->lock); + end_page_writeback(page); + return 0; err_free: -- 1.8.3.2 -- 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