linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 11/27] writeback: Fix data corruption on NFS

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Message-Id: <20140123190649.861199315@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:06:48 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 11/27] writeback: Fix data corruption on NFS

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

commit f9b0e058cbd04ada76b13afffa7e1df830543c24 upstream.

Commit 4f8ad655dbc8 "writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()" added
a condition to skip clean inode. However this is wrong in WB_SYNC_ALL
mode because there we also want to wait for outstanding writeback on
possibly clean inode. This was causing occasional data corruption issues
on NFS because it uses sync_inode() to make sure all outstanding writes
are flushed to the server before truncating the inode and with
sync_inode() returning prematurely file was sometimes extended back
by an outstanding write after it was truncated.

So modify the test to also check for pages under writeback in
WB_SYNC_ALL mode.

Fixes: 4f8ad655dbc82cf05d2edc11e66b78a42d38bf93
Reported-and-tested-by: Dan Duval <dan.duval@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/fs-writeback.c |   15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -510,13 +510,16 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *ino
 	}
 	WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_SYNC);
 	/*
-	 * Skip inode if it is clean. We don't want to mess with writeback
-	 * lists in this function since flusher thread may be doing for example
-	 * sync in parallel and if we move the inode, it could get skipped. So
-	 * here we make sure inode is on some writeback list and leave it there
-	 * unless we have completely cleaned the inode.
+	 * Skip inode if it is clean and we have no outstanding writeback in
+	 * WB_SYNC_ALL mode. We don't want to mess with writeback lists in this
+	 * function since flusher thread may be doing for example sync in
+	 * parallel and if we move the inode, it could get skipped. So here we
+	 * make sure inode is on some writeback list and leave it there unless
+	 * we have completely cleaned the inode.
 	 */
-	if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY))
+	if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) &&
+	    (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL ||
+	     !mapping_tagged(inode->i_mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK)))
 		goto out;
 	inode->i_state |= I_SYNC;
 	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);


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