[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "GFS2: Fix incorrect invalidation for DIO/buffered I/O" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    GFS2: Fix incorrect invalidation for DIO/buffered I/O

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 52a38ba867b954e9c576437484771f4f82270552 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:14:52 +0000
Subject: GFS2: Fix incorrect invalidation for DIO/buffered I/O

commit dfd11184d894cd0a92397b25cac18831a1a6a5bc upstream.

In patch 209806aba9d540dde3db0a5ce72307f85f33468f we allowed
local deferred locks to be granted against a cached exclusive
lock. That opened up a corner case which this patch now
fixes.

The solution to the problem is to check whether we have cached
pages each time we do direct I/O and if so to unmap, flush
and invalidate those pages. Since the glock state machine
normally does that for us, mostly the code will be a no-op.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/gfs2/aops.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/aops.c b/fs/gfs2/aops.c
index e80a464..0111060 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/aops.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/aops.c
@@ -1011,6 +1011,7 @@ static ssize_t gfs2_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
+	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
 	struct gfs2_inode *ip = GFS2_I(inode);
 	struct gfs2_holder gh;
 	int rv;
@@ -1031,6 +1032,35 @@ static ssize_t gfs2_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
 	if (rv != 1)
 		goto out; /* dio not valid, fall back to buffered i/o */

+	/*
+	 * Now since we are holding a deferred (CW) lock at this point, you
+	 * might be wondering why this is ever needed. There is a case however
+	 * where we've granted a deferred local lock against a cached exclusive
+	 * glock. That is ok provided all granted local locks are deferred, but
+	 * it also means that it is possible to encounter pages which are
+	 * cached and possibly also mapped. So here we check for that and sort
+	 * them out ahead of the dio. The glock state machine will take care of
+	 * everything else.
+	 *
+	 * If in fact the cached glock state (gl->gl_state) is deferred (CW) in
+	 * the first place, mapping->nr_pages will always be zero.
+	 */
+	if (mapping->nrpages) {
+		loff_t lstart = offset & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
+		loff_t len = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
+		loff_t end = PAGE_ALIGN(offset + len) - 1;
+
+		rv = 0;
+		if (len == 0)
+			goto out;
+		if (test_and_clear_bit(GIF_SW_PAGED, &ip->i_flags))
+			unmap_shared_mapping_range(ip->i_inode.i_mapping, offset, len);
+		rv = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, lstart, end);
+		if (rv)
+			return rv;
+		truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, lstart, end);
+	}
+
 	rv = __blockdev_direct_IO(rw, iocb, inode, inode->i_sb->s_bdev, iov,
 				  offset, nr_segs, gfs2_get_block_direct,
 				  NULL, NULL, 0);
--
1.8.3.2