linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 56/61] fs: clear writeback errors in inode_init

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Message-Id: <20180706054714.478391794@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri,  6 Jul 2018 07:47:20 +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,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 56/61] fs: clear writeback errors in inode_init_always

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

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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

[ Upstream commit 829bc787c1a0403e4d886296dd4d90c5f9c1744a ]

In inode_init_always(), we clear the inode mapping flags, which clears
any retained error (AS_EIO, AS_ENOSPC) bits.  Unfortunately, we do not
also clear wb_err, which means that old mapping errors can leak through
to new inodes.

This is crucial for the XFS inode allocation path because we recycle old
in-core inodes and we do not want error state from an old file to leak
into the new file.  This bug was discovered by running generic/036 and
generic/047 in a loop and noticing that the EIOs generated by the
collision of direct and buffered writes in generic/036 would survive the
remount between 036 and 047, and get reported to the fsyncs (on
different files!) in generic/047.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/inode.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ int inode_init_always(struct super_block
 	mapping->a_ops = &empty_aops;
 	mapping->host = inode;
 	mapping->flags = 0;
+	mapping->wb_err = 0;
 	atomic_set(&mapping->i_mmap_writable, 0);
 	mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE);
 	mapping->private_data = NULL;