2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jan Kara (cherry picked from commit 7f5aa215088b817add9c71914b83650bdd49f8a9) If we race with commit code setting i_transaction to NULL, we could possibly dereference it. Proper locking requires the journal pointer (to access journal->j_list_lock), which we don't have. So we have to change the prototype of the function so that filesystem passes us the journal pointer. Also add a more detailed comment about why the function jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() does what it does and how it should be used. Thanks to Dan Carpenter for pointing to the suspitious code. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Acked-by: Joel Becker CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org CC: mfasheh@suse.de CC: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 ++++-- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- include/linux/jbd2.h | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -46,8 +46,10 @@ static inline int ext4_begin_ordered_truncate(struct inode *inode, loff_t new_size) { - return jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate(&EXT4_I(inode)->jinode, - new_size); + return jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate( + EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal, + &EXT4_I(inode)->jinode, + new_size); } static void ext4_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset); --- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c @@ -2049,26 +2049,46 @@ done: } /* - * This function must be called when inode is journaled in ordered mode - * before truncation happens. It starts writeout of truncated part in - * case it is in the committing transaction so that we stand to ordered - * mode consistency guarantees. + * File truncate and transaction commit interact with each other in a + * non-trivial way. If a transaction writing data block A is + * committing, we cannot discard the data by truncate until we have + * written them. Otherwise if we crashed after the transaction with + * write has committed but before the transaction with truncate has + * committed, we could see stale data in block A. This function is a + * helper to solve this problem. It starts writeout of the truncated + * part in case it is in the committing transaction. + * + * Filesystem code must call this function when inode is journaled in + * ordered mode before truncation happens and after the inode has been + * placed on orphan list with the new inode size. The second condition + * avoids the race that someone writes new data and we start + * committing the transaction after this function has been called but + * before a transaction for truncate is started (and furthermore it + * allows us to optimize the case where the addition to orphan list + * happens in the same transaction as write --- we don't have to write + * any data in such case). */ -int jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate(struct jbd2_inode *inode, +int jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate(journal_t *journal, + struct jbd2_inode *jinode, loff_t new_size) { - journal_t *journal; - transaction_t *commit_trans; + transaction_t *inode_trans, *commit_trans; int ret = 0; - if (!inode->i_transaction && !inode->i_next_transaction) + /* This is a quick check to avoid locking if not necessary */ + if (!jinode->i_transaction) goto out; - journal = inode->i_transaction->t_journal; + /* Locks are here just to force reading of recent values, it is + * enough that the transaction was not committing before we started + * a transaction adding the inode to orphan list */ spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); commit_trans = journal->j_committing_transaction; spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); - if (inode->i_transaction == commit_trans) { - ret = filemap_fdatawrite_range(inode->i_vfs_inode->i_mapping, + spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); + inode_trans = jinode->i_transaction; + spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); + if (inode_trans == commit_trans) { + ret = filemap_fdatawrite_range(jinode->i_vfs_inode->i_mapping, new_size, LLONG_MAX); if (ret) jbd2_journal_abort(journal, ret); --- a/include/linux/jbd2.h +++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h @@ -1075,7 +1075,8 @@ extern int jbd2_journal_clear_err (j extern int jbd2_journal_bmap(journal_t *, unsigned long, unsigned long long *); extern int jbd2_journal_force_commit(journal_t *); extern int jbd2_journal_file_inode(handle_t *handle, struct jbd2_inode *inode); -extern int jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate(struct jbd2_inode *inode, loff_t new_size); +extern int jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate(journal_t *journal, + struct jbd2_inode *inode, loff_t new_size); extern void jbd2_journal_init_jbd_inode(struct jbd2_inode *jinode, struct inode *inode); extern void jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode(journal_t *journal, struct jbd2_inode *jinode); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html