This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: prevent bugon on race between write/fcntl to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ext4-prevent-bugon-on-race-between-write-fcntl.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a41537e69b4aa43f0fea02498c2595a81267383b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:53:16 -0400 Subject: ext4: prevent bugon on race between write/fcntl From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a41537e69b4aa43f0fea02498c2595a81267383b upstream. O_DIRECT flags can be toggeled via fcntl(F_SETFL). But this value checked twice inside ext4_file_write_iter() and __generic_file_write() which result in BUG_ON inside ext4_direct_IO. Let's initialize iocb->private unconditionally. TESTCASE: xfstest:generic/036 https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/402445/ #TYPICAL STACK TRACE: kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:2960! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: brd iTCO_wdt lpc_ich mfd_core igb ptp dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CPU: 6 PID: 5505 Comm: aio-dio-fcntl-r Not tainted 3.17.0-rc2-00176-gff5c017 #161 Hardware name: Intel Corporation W2600CR/W2600CR, BIOS SE5C600.86B.99.99.x028.061320111235 06/13/2011 task: ffff88080e95a7c0 ti: ffff88080f908000 task.ti: ffff88080f908000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811fabf2>] [<ffffffff811fabf2>] ext4_direct_IO+0x162/0x3d0 RSP: 0018:ffff88080f90bb58 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000400 RBX: ffff88080fdb2a28 RCX: 00000000a802c818 RDX: 0000040000080000 RSI: ffff88080d8aeb80 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffff88080f90bbc8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000001581 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88080d8aeb80 R13: ffff88080f90bbf8 R14: ffff88080fdb28c8 R15: ffff88080fdb2a28 FS: 00007f23b2055700(0000) GS:ffff880818400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f23b2045000 CR3: 000000080cedf000 CR4: 00000000000407e0 Stack: ffff88080f90bb98 0000000000000000 7ffffffffffffffe ffff88080fdb2c30 0000000000000200 0000000000000200 0000000000000001 0000000000000200 ffff88080f90bbc8 ffff88080fdb2c30 ffff88080f90be08 0000000000000200 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8112ca9d>] generic_file_direct_write+0xed/0x180 [<ffffffff8112f2b2>] __generic_file_write_iter+0x222/0x370 [<ffffffff811f495b>] ext4_file_write_iter+0x34b/0x400 [<ffffffff811bd709>] ? aio_run_iocb+0x239/0x410 [<ffffffff811bd709>] ? aio_run_iocb+0x239/0x410 [<ffffffff810990e5>] ? local_clock+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffff810abd94>] ? __lock_acquire+0x274/0x700 [<ffffffff811f4610>] ? ext4_unwritten_wait+0xb0/0xb0 [<ffffffff811bd756>] aio_run_iocb+0x286/0x410 [<ffffffff810990e5>] ? local_clock+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffff810ac359>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x29/0x190 [<ffffffff811bc05b>] ? lookup_ioctx+0x4b/0xf0 [<ffffffff811bde3b>] do_io_submit+0x55b/0x740 [<ffffffff811bdcaa>] ? do_io_submit+0x3ca/0x740 [<ffffffff811be030>] SyS_io_submit+0x10/0x20 [<ffffffff815ce192>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: 01 48 8b 80 f0 01 00 00 48 8b 18 49 8b 45 10 0f 85 f1 01 00 00 48 03 45 c8 48 3b 43 48 0f 8f e3 01 00 00 49 83 7c 24 18 00 75 04 <0f> 0b eb fe f0 ff 83 ec 01 00 00 49 8b 44 24 18 8b 00 85 c0 89 RIP [<ffffffff811fabf2>] ext4_direct_IO+0x162/0x3d0 RSP <ffff88080f90bb58> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/file.c +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c @@ -137,10 +137,10 @@ ext4_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, iov_iter_truncate(from, sbi->s_bitmap_maxbytes - pos); } + iocb->private = &overwrite; if (o_direct) { blk_start_plug(&plug); - iocb->private = &overwrite; /* check whether we do a DIO overwrite or not */ if (ext4_should_dioread_nolock(inode) && !aio_mutex && Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.17/ext4-check-s_chksum_driver-when-looking-for-bg-csum-presence.patch queue-3.17/ext4-prevent-bugon-on-race-between-write-fcntl.patch queue-3.17/ext4-move-error-report-out-of-atomic-context-in-ext4_init_block_bitmap.patch queue-3.17/ext4-replace-open-coded-mdata-csum-feature-to-helper-function.patch queue-3.17/ext4-grab-missed-write_count-for-ext4_ioc_swap_boot.patch -- 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