linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix data corruption due to stale mmap reads

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:59:36 -0600
From:   Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: fix data corruption due to stale mmap reads

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:10:43PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
<>
> Hum, but now thinking more about it I have hard time figuring out why write
> vs fault cannot actually still race:
> 
> CPU1 - write(2)				CPU2 - read fault
> 
> 					dax_iomap_pte_fault()
> 					  ->iomap_begin() - sees hole
> dax_iomap_rw()
>   iomap_apply()
>     ->iomap_begin - allocates blocks
>     dax_iomap_actor()
>       invalidate_inode_pages2_range()
>         - there's nothing to invalidate
> 					  grab_mapping_entry()
> 					  - we add zero page in the radix
> 					    tree & map it to page tables
> 
> Similarly read vs write fault may end up racing in a wrong way and try to
> replace already existing exceptional entry with a hole page?

Yep, this race seems real to me, too.  This seems very much like the issues
that exist when a thread is doing direct I/O.  One thread is doing I/O to an
intermediate buffer (page cache for direct I/O case, zero page for us), and
the other is going around it directly to media, and they can get out of sync.

IIRC the direct I/O code looked something like:

1/ invalidate existing mappings
2/ do direct I/O to media
3/ invalidate mappings again, just in case.  Should be cheap if there weren't
   any conflicting faults.  This makes sure any new allocations we made are
   faulted in.

I guess one option would be to replicate that logic in the DAX I/O path, or we
could try and enhance our locking so page faults can't race with I/O since
both can allocate blocks.

I'm not sure, but will think on it.