ext4: fix bh->b_state corruption
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Fri, 19 Feb 2016 05:18:25 +0000 (00:18 -0500)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 1 Apr 2016 00:54:34 +0000 (01:54 +0100)
commit01dda5f90b3e0fd5e65b5d25d347b05fdf08bd27
tree7ae71f01894f221ec3fe00ae51609a4f788354ef
parent8f8c03856431eb65088f600e58b73e1fa6715ffd
ext4: fix bh->b_state corruption

commit ed8ad83808f009ade97ebbf6519bc3a97fefbc0c upstream.

ext4 can update bh->b_state non-atomically in _ext4_get_block() and
ext4_da_get_block_prep(). Usually this is fine since bh is just a
temporary storage for mapping information on stack but in some cases it
can be fully living bh attached to a page. In such case non-atomic
update of bh->b_state can race with an atomic update which then gets
lost. Usually when we are mapping bh and thus updating bh->b_state
non-atomically, nobody else touches the bh and so things work out fine
but there is one case to especially worry about: ext4_finish_bio() uses
BH_Uptodate_Lock on the first bh in the page to synchronize handling of
PageWriteback state. So when blocksize < pagesize, we can be atomically
modifying bh->b_state of a buffer that actually isn't under IO and thus
can race e.g. with delalloc trying to map that buffer. The result is
that we can mistakenly set / clear BH_Uptodate_Lock bit resulting in the
corruption of PageWriteback state or missed unlock of BH_Uptodate_Lock.

Fix the problem by always updating bh->b_state bits atomically.

Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - s/READ_ONCE/ACCESS_ONCE/
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
fs/ext4/inode.c