3.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@xxxxxxx> commit 56d7acc792c0d98f38f22058671ee715ff197023 upstream. This bug leads to reproducible silent data loss, despite the use of msync(), sync() and a clean unmount of the file system. It is easily reproducible with the following script: ----------------[BEGIN SCRIPT]-------------------- mkfs.nilfs2 -f /dev/sdb mount /dev/sdb /mnt dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=30 of=/mnt/testfile umount /mnt mount /dev/sdb /mnt CHECKSUM_BEFORE="$(md5sum /mnt/testfile)" /root/mmaptest/mmaptest /mnt/testfile 30 10 5 sync CHECKSUM_AFTER="$(md5sum /mnt/testfile)" umount /mnt mount /dev/sdb /mnt CHECKSUM_AFTER_REMOUNT="$(md5sum /mnt/testfile)" umount /mnt echo "BEFORE MMAP:\t$CHECKSUM_BEFORE" echo "AFTER MMAP:\t$CHECKSUM_AFTER" echo "AFTER REMOUNT:\t$CHECKSUM_AFTER_REMOUNT" ----------------[END SCRIPT]-------------------- The mmaptest tool looks something like this (very simplified, with error checking removed): ----------------[BEGIN mmaptest]-------------------- data = mmap(NULL, file_size - file_offset, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, file_offset); for (i = 0; i < write_count; ++i) { memcpy(data + i * 4096, buf, sizeof(buf)); msync(data, file_size - file_offset, MS_SYNC)) } ----------------[END mmaptest]-------------------- The output of the script looks something like this: BEFORE MMAP: 281ed1d5ae50e8419f9b978aab16de83 /mnt/testfile AFTER MMAP: 6604a1c31f10780331a6850371b3a313 /mnt/testfile AFTER REMOUNT: 281ed1d5ae50e8419f9b978aab16de83 /mnt/testfile So it is clear, that the changes done using mmap() do not survive a remount. This can be reproduced a 100% of the time. The problem was introduced in commit 136e8770cd5d ("nilfs2: fix issue of nilfs_set_page_dirty() for page at EOF boundary"). If the page was read with mpage_readpage() or mpage_readpages() for example, then it has no buffers attached to it. In that case page_has_buffers(page) in nilfs_set_page_dirty() will be false. Therefore nilfs_set_file_dirty() is never called and the pages are never collected and never written to disk. This patch fixes the problem by also calling nilfs_set_file_dirty() if the page has no buffers attached to it. [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: s/PAGE_SHIFT/PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT/] Signed-off-by: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nilfs2/inode.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nilfs2/inode.c +++ b/fs/nilfs2/inode.c @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #include <linux/buffer_head.h> #include <linux/gfp.h> #include <linux/mpage.h> +#include <linux/pagemap.h> #include <linux/writeback.h> #include <linux/aio.h> #include "nilfs.h" @@ -219,10 +220,10 @@ static int nilfs_writepage(struct page * static int nilfs_set_page_dirty(struct page *page) { + struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host; int ret = __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page); if (page_has_buffers(page)) { - struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host; unsigned nr_dirty = 0; struct buffer_head *bh, *head; @@ -245,6 +246,10 @@ static int nilfs_set_page_dirty(struct p if (nr_dirty) nilfs_set_file_dirty(inode, nr_dirty); + } else if (ret) { + unsigned nr_dirty = 1 << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - inode->i_blkbits); + + nilfs_set_file_dirty(inode, nr_dirty); } return ret; } -- 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