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Message-ID: <51b6383e-7bb0-1e63-86ef-0ef8835583f6@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:21:30 +0800
From:   Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Properly sync file size update after O_SYNC direct
 IO

Hi Dave,

On 2023/10/12 08:26, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 04:21:55PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>> Gao Xiang has reported that on ext4 O_SYNC direct IO does not properly
>> sync file size update and thus if we crash at unfortunate moment, the
>> file can have smaller size although O_SYNC IO has reported successful
>> completion. The problem happens because update of on-disk inode size is
>> handled in ext4_dio_write_iter() *after* iomap_dio_rw() (and thus
>> dio_complete() in particular) has returned and generic_file_sync() gets
>> called by dio_complete(). Fix the problem by handling on-disk inode size
>> update directly in our ->end_io completion handler.
>>
>> References: https://lore.kernel.org/all/02d18236-26ef-09b0-90ad-030c4fe3ee20@linux.alibaba.com
>> Reported-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
>> ---
>>   fs/ext4/file.c | 139 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------
>>   1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)
> .....
>> @@ -388,9 +342,28 @@ static ssize_t ext4_handle_inode_extension(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
>>   		 */
>>   		if (inode->i_nlink)
>>   			ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
>> +		return;
>>   	}
>> +	/*
>> +	 * If i_disksize got extended due to writeback of delalloc blocks while
>> +	 * the DIO was running we could fail to cleanup the orphan list in
>> +	 * ext4_handle_inode_extension(). Do it now.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (!list_empty(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan) && inode->i_nlink) {
>> +		handle_t *handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2);
> 
> So this has to be called after the DIO write completes and calls
> ext4_handle_inode_extension()?
> 
> ....
> 
>> @@ -606,9 +570,8 @@ static ssize_t ext4_dio_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
>>   			   dio_flags, NULL, 0);
>>   	if (ret == -ENOTBLK)
>>   		ret = 0;
>> -
>>   	if (extend)
>> -		ret = ext4_handle_inode_extension(inode, offset, ret, count);
>> +		ext4_inode_extension_cleanup(inode, ret);
> 
> Because this doesn't wait for AIO DIO to complete and actually
> extend the file before running the cleanup code...

As far as I know, for ext4 AIO DIO extension cases,
IOMAP_DIO_FORCE_WAIT will be set, thus no async DIO here.

So the timing for this case will be strictly:
   - ext4_handle_inode_extension()   --- record i_disksize in .end_io

   - generic_write_sync()            --- forcely do fsync()

   - ext4_inode_extension_cleanup()  --- drop orphan in another transaction
                                         as mentioned in [1]

Anyway, that is my current limited thoughts.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/20230920152005.7iowrlukd5zbvp43@quack3/

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.