3.8.13.27 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: hujianyang <hujianyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 691a7c6f28ac90cccd0dbcf81348ea90b211bdd0 upstream.
There is a race condition in UBIFS:
Thread A (mmap) Thread B (fsync)
->__do_fault ->write_cache_pages
-> ubifs_vm_page_mkwrite
-> budget_space
-> lock_page
-> release/convert_page_budget
-> SetPagePrivate
-> TestSetPageDirty
-> unlock_page
-> lock_page
-> TestClearPageDirty
-> ubifs_writepage
-> do_writepage
-> release_budget
-> ClearPagePrivate
-> unlock_page
-> !(ret & VM_FAULT_LOCKED)
-> lock_page
-> set_page_dirty
-> ubifs_set_page_dirty
-> TestSetPageDirty (set page dirty without budgeting)
-> unlock_page
This leads to situation where we have a diry page but no budget allocated for
this page, so further write-back may fail with -ENOSPC.
In this fix we return from page_mkwrite without performing unlock_page. We
return VM_FAULT_LOCKED instead. After doing this, the race above will not
happen.
Signed-off-by: hujianyang <hujianyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ubifs/file.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index 5bc7781..bc7798d 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -1522,8 +1522,7 @@ static int ubifs_vm_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
ubifs_release_dirty_inode_budget(c, ui);
}
- unlock_page(page);
- return 0;
+ return VM_FAULT_LOCKED;
out_unlock:
unlock_page(page);
--
1.9.1
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