The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 19dfc1f5f2ef03a52aa30c8257c5745edef23f55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 10:27:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev() O_APPEND handling there hadn't been completely fixed by Pavel's patch; it checks the right value, but it's racy - we can't really do that until i_mutex has been taken. Fix by switching to __generic_file_aio_write() (open-coding generic_file_aio_write(), actually) and pulling mutex_lock() above inode_size_read(). Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c index 3443b8f8e1c0..5bac2763c450 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/file.c +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c @@ -2579,19 +2579,32 @@ cifs_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, struct cifsInodeInfo *cinode = CIFS_I(inode); struct TCP_Server_Info *server = tlink_tcon(cfile->tlink)->ses->server; ssize_t rc = -EACCES; - loff_t lock_pos = pos; + loff_t lock_pos = iocb->ki_pos; - if (file->f_flags & O_APPEND) - lock_pos = i_size_read(inode); /* * We need to hold the sem to be sure nobody modifies lock list * with a brlock that prevents writing. */ down_read(&cinode->lock_sem); + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); + if (file->f_flags & O_APPEND) + lock_pos = i_size_read(inode); if (!cifs_find_lock_conflict(cfile, lock_pos, iov_length(iov, nr_segs), server->vals->exclusive_lock_type, NULL, - CIFS_WRITE_OP)) - rc = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos); + CIFS_WRITE_OP)) { + rc = __generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs); + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); + + if (rc > 0) { + ssize_t err; + + err = generic_write_sync(file, iocb->ki_pos - rc, rc); + if (rc < 0) + rc = err; + } + } else { + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); + } up_read(&cinode->lock_sem); return rc; } -- 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