Re: [PATCH 4.4] ext4: bugfix for mmaped pages in mpage_release_unused_pages()

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On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 02:45:16AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> From: wangguang <wang.guang55@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 4e800c0359d9a53e6bf0ab216954971b2515247f upstream.
> 
> Pages clear buffers after ext4 delayed block allocation failed,
> However, it does not clean its pte_dirty flag.
> if the pages unmap ,in cording to the pte_dirty ,
> unmap_page_range may try to call __set_page_dirty,
> 
> which may lead to the bugon at
> mpage_prepare_extent_to_map:head = page_buffers(page);.
> 
> This patch just call clear_page_dirty_for_io to clean pte_dirty
> at mpage_release_unused_pages for pages mmaped.
> 
> Steps to reproduce the bug:
> 
> (1) mmap a file in ext4
> 	addr = (char *)mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
> 	       	            fd, 0);
> 	memset(addr, 'i', 4096);
> 
> (2) return EIO at
> 
> 	ext4_writepages->mpage_map_and_submit_extent->mpage_map_one_extent
> 
> which causes this log message to be print:
> 
>                 ext4_msg(sb, KERN_CRIT,
>                         "Delayed block allocation failed for "
>                         "inode %lu at logical offset %llu with"
>                         " max blocks %u with error %d",
>                         inode->i_ino,
>                         (unsigned long long)map->m_lblk,
>                         (unsigned)map->m_len, -err);
> 
> (3)Unmap the addr cause warning at
> 
> 	__set_page_dirty:WARN_ON_ONCE(warn && !PageUptodate(page));
> 
> (4) wait for a minute,then bugon happen.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: wangguang <wangguang03@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> [@nathanchance: Resolved conflict from lack of 09cbfeaf1a5a6]
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> One more bug fix I came across, sorry I forgot to send it with the other
> two patches!

Thanks for this, now applied.

greg k-h



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