linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 45/47] ext4: fix data corruption for mmap writes

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Date:   Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:50:58 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Michael Zimmer <michael@...rm64.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 45/47] ext4: fix data corruption for mmap writes

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

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

commit a056bdaae7a181f7dcc876cfab2f94538e508709 upstream.

mpage_submit_page() can race with another process growing i_size and
writing data via mmap to the written-back page. As mpage_submit_page()
samples i_size too early, it may happen that ext4_bio_write_page()
zeroes out too large tail of the page and thus corrupts user data.

Fix the problem by sampling i_size only after the page has been
write-protected in page tables by clear_page_dirty_for_io() call.

Reported-by: Michael Zimmer <michael@...rm64.com>
CC: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: cb20d5188366f04d96d2e07b1240cc92170ade40
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |   24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1946,15 +1946,29 @@ static int ext4_writepage(struct page *p
 static int mpage_submit_page(struct mpage_da_data *mpd, struct page *page)
 {
 	int len;
-	loff_t size = i_size_read(mpd->inode);
+	loff_t size;
 	int err;
 
 	BUG_ON(page->index != mpd->first_page);
-	if (page->index == size >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)
-		len = size & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
-	else
-		len = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
 	clear_page_dirty_for_io(page);
+	/*
+	 * We have to be very careful here!  Nothing protects writeback path
+	 * against i_size changes and the page can be writeably mapped into
+	 * page tables. So an application can be growing i_size and writing
+	 * data through mmap while writeback runs. clear_page_dirty_for_io()
+	 * write-protects our page in page tables and the page cannot get
+	 * written to again until we release page lock. So only after
+	 * clear_page_dirty_for_io() we are safe to sample i_size for
+	 * ext4_bio_write_page() to zero-out tail of the written page. We rely
+	 * on the barrier provided by TestClearPageDirty in
+	 * clear_page_dirty_for_io() to make sure i_size is really sampled only
+	 * after page tables are updated.
+	 */
+	size = i_size_read(mpd->inode);
+	if (page->index == size >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+		len = size & ~PAGE_MASK;
+	else
+		len = PAGE_SIZE;
 	err = ext4_bio_write_page(&mpd->io_submit, page, len, mpd->wbc, false);
 	if (!err)
 		mpd->wbc->nr_to_write--;