[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "ext4: fix crashes in dioread_nolock mode" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Mon Mar 7 22:34:39 UTC 2016
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
ext4: fix crashes in dioread_nolock mode
to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt5.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From 65bfdcc087f7b0bf77d5d9d54d90e085a58edbb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:33:21 -0500
Subject: ext4: fix crashes in dioread_nolock mode
commit 74dae4278546b897eb81784fdfcce872ddd8b2b8 upstream.
Competing overwrite DIO in dioread_nolock mode will just overwrite
pointer to io_end in the inode. This may result in data corruption or
extent conversion happening from IO completion interrupt because we
don't properly set buffer_defer_completion() when unlocked DIO races
with locked DIO to unwritten extent.
Since unlocked DIO doesn't need io_end for anything, just avoid
allocating it and corrupting pointer from inode for locked DIO.
A cleaner fix would be to avoid these games with io_end pointer from the
inode but that requires more intrusive changes so we leave that for
later.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index ba8efb7..5651043 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3142,29 +3142,29 @@ static ssize_t ext4_ext_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
* case, we allocate an io_end structure to hook to the iocb.
*/
iocb->private = NULL;
- ext4_inode_aio_set(inode, NULL);
- if (!is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
- io_end = ext4_init_io_end(inode, GFP_NOFS);
- if (!io_end) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto retake_lock;
- }
- /*
- * Grab reference for DIO. Will be dropped in ext4_end_io_dio()
- */
- iocb->private = ext4_get_io_end(io_end);
- /*
- * we save the io structure for current async direct
- * IO, so that later ext4_map_blocks() could flag the
- * io structure whether there is a unwritten extents
- * needs to be converted when IO is completed.
- */
- ext4_inode_aio_set(inode, io_end);
- }
-
if (overwrite) {
get_block_func = ext4_get_block_write_nolock;
} else {
+ ext4_inode_aio_set(inode, NULL);
+ if (!is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
+ io_end = ext4_init_io_end(inode, GFP_NOFS);
+ if (!io_end) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto retake_lock;
+ }
+ /*
+ * Grab reference for DIO. Will be dropped in
+ * ext4_end_io_dio()
+ */
+ iocb->private = ext4_get_io_end(io_end);
+ /*
+ * we save the io structure for current async direct
+ * IO, so that later ext4_map_blocks() could flag the
+ * io structure whether there is a unwritten extents
+ * needs to be converted when IO is completed.
+ */
+ ext4_inode_aio_set(inode, io_end);
+ }
get_block_func = ext4_get_block_write;
dio_flags = DIO_LOCKING;
}
--
2.7.0
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