Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:50:03 -0700
From:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
To:	jack@...e.cz, cmm@...ibm.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, yinghan@...gle.com,
	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [merged] ext2-fix-data-corruption-for-racing-writes.patch removed from -mm tree


The patch titled
     ext2: fix data corruption for racing writes
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     ext2-fix-data-corruption-for-racing-writes.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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Subject: ext2: fix data corruption for racing writes
From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

If two writers allocating blocks to file race with each other (e.g. 
because writepages races with ordinary write or two writepages race with
each other), ext2_getblock() can be called on the same inode in parallel. 
Before we are going to allocate new blocks, we have to recheck the block
chain we have obtained so far without holding truncate_mutex.  Otherwise
we could overwrite the indirect block pointer set by the other writer
leading to data loss.

The below test program by Ying is able to reproduce the data loss with ext2
on in BRD in a few minutes if the machine is under memory pressure:

long kMemSize  = 50 << 20;
int kPageSize = 4096;

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
	int status;
	int count = 0;
	int i;
	char *fname = "/mnt/test.mmap";
	char *mem;
	unlink(fname);
	int fd = open(fname, O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_RDWR, 0600);
	status = ftruncate(fd, kMemSize);
	mem = mmap(0, kMemSize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
	// Fill the memory with 1s.
	memset(mem, 1, kMemSize);
	sleep(2);
	for (i = 0; i < kMemSize; i++) {
		int byte_good = mem[i] != 0;
		if (!byte_good && ((i % kPageSize) == 0)) {
			//printf("%d ", i / kPageSize);
			count++;
		}
	}
	munmap(mem, kMemSize);
	close(fd);
	unlink(fname);

	if (count > 0) {
		printf("Running %d bad page\n", count);
		return 1;
	}
	return 0;
}

Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/ext2/inode.c |   44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/ext2/inode.c~ext2-fix-data-corruption-for-racing-writes fs/ext2/inode.c
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c~ext2-fix-data-corruption-for-racing-writes
+++ a/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -590,9 +590,8 @@ static int ext2_get_blocks(struct inode 
 
 	if (depth == 0)
 		return (err);
-reread:
-	partial = ext2_get_branch(inode, depth, offsets, chain, &err);
 
+	partial = ext2_get_branch(inode, depth, offsets, chain, &err);
 	/* Simplest case - block found, no allocation needed */
 	if (!partial) {
 		first_block = le32_to_cpu(chain[depth - 1].key);
@@ -602,15 +601,16 @@ reread:
 		while (count < maxblocks && count <= blocks_to_boundary) {
 			ext2_fsblk_t blk;
 
-			if (!verify_chain(chain, partial)) {
+			if (!verify_chain(chain, chain + depth - 1)) {
 				/*
 				 * Indirect block might be removed by
 				 * truncate while we were reading it.
 				 * Handling of that case: forget what we've
 				 * got now, go to reread.
 				 */
+				err = -EAGAIN;
 				count = 0;
-				goto changed;
+				break;
 			}
 			blk = le32_to_cpu(*(chain[depth-1].p + count));
 			if (blk == first_block + count)
@@ -618,7 +618,8 @@ reread:
 			else
 				break;
 		}
-		goto got_it;
+		if (err != -EAGAIN)
+			goto got_it;
 	}
 
 	/* Next simple case - plain lookup or failed read of indirect block */
@@ -626,6 +627,33 @@ reread:
 		goto cleanup;
 
 	mutex_lock(&ei->truncate_mutex);
+	/*
+	 * If the indirect block is missing while we are reading
+	 * the chain(ext3_get_branch() returns -EAGAIN err), or
+	 * if the chain has been changed after we grab the semaphore,
+	 * (either because another process truncated this branch, or
+	 * another get_block allocated this branch) re-grab the chain to see if
+	 * the request block has been allocated or not.
+	 *
+	 * Since we already block the truncate/other get_block
+	 * at this point, we will have the current copy of the chain when we
+	 * splice the branch into the tree.
+	 */
+	if (err == -EAGAIN || !verify_chain(chain, partial)) {
+		while (partial > chain) {
+			brelse(partial->bh);
+			partial--;
+		}
+		partial = ext2_get_branch(inode, depth, offsets, chain, &err);
+		if (!partial) {
+			count++;
+			mutex_unlock(&ei->truncate_mutex);
+			if (err)
+				goto cleanup;
+			clear_buffer_new(bh_result);
+			goto got_it;
+		}
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Okay, we need to do block allocation.  Lazily initialize the block
@@ -683,12 +711,6 @@ cleanup:
 		partial--;
 	}
 	return err;
-changed:
-	while (partial > chain) {
-		brelse(partial->bh);
-		partial--;
-	}
-	goto reread;
 }
 
 int ext2_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from jack@...e.cz are

origin.patch
linux-next.patch
ext2-add-blk_issue_flush-to-syncing-paths.patch
ext2-do-not-update-mtime-of-a-moved-directory.patch
ext3-fix-chain-verification-in-ext3_get_blocks.patch
reiser4-update-names-of-quota-methods.patch

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