linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] fs: move falloc collapse range check into the filesystem methods

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Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:55:21 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] fs: move falloc collapse range check into the
 filesystem methods

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 06:41:16PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Currently in do_fallocate in collapse range case we're checking whether
> offset + len is not bigger than i_size. However there is nothing which
> would prevent i_size from changing so the check is pointless. It should
> be done in the file system itself and the file system needs to make sure
> that i_size is not going to change. The i_size check for the other
> fallocate modes are also done in the filesystems.
> 
> As it is now we can easily crash kernel by having two processes doing
> truncate and fallocate collapse range at the same time. This can be
> reproduced on ext4 and it is theoretically possible on xfs even though I
> was not able to trigger it with this simple test.
> 
> This commit removes the check from do_fallocate and adds it to the file
> system.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Thanks, updated.

						- Ted
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