ext4: fix lost truncate due to race with writeback
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:09:31 +0000 (10:09 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:09:31 +0000 (10:09 -0400)
commit90e775b71ac4e685898c7995756fe58c135adaa6
treee7e84b7990ad61717808830726b0fce4e9c0464a
parent5208386c501276df18fee464e21d3c58d2d79517
ext4: fix lost truncate due to race with writeback

The following race can lead to a loss of i_disksize update from truncate
thus resulting in a wrong inode size if the inode size isn't updated
again before inode is reclaimed:

ext4_setattr() mpage_map_and_submit_extent()
  EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = attr->ia_size;
  ...   ...
  disksize = ((loff_t)mpd->first_page) << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
  /* False because i_size isn't
   * updated yet */
  if (disksize > i_size_read(inode))
  /* True, because i_disksize is
   * already truncated */
  if (disksize > EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize)
    /* Overwrite i_disksize
     * update from truncate */
    ext4_update_i_disksize()
  i_size_write(inode, attr->ia_size);

For other places updating i_disksize such race cannot happen because
i_mutex prevents these races. Writeback is the only place where we do
not hold i_mutex and we cannot grab it there because of lock ordering.

We fix the race by doing both i_disksize and i_size update in truncate
atomically under i_data_sem and in mpage_map_and_submit_extent() we move
the check against i_size under i_data_sem as well.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
fs/ext4/ext4.h
fs/ext4/inode.c