linux-kernel - Re: ext4 data corruption in 6.1 stable tree (was Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/297] 5.15.140-rc1 review)

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Message-ID: <4118ca20-fb7d-4e49-b08c-68fee0522d3d@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2023 09:55:08 -0800
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@...aro.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, pavel@...x.de, jonathanh@...dia.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com,
        srw@...dewatkins.net, rwarsow@....de, conor@...nel.org,
        chrubis@...e.cz, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: ext4 data corruption in 6.1 stable tree (was Re: [PATCH 5.15
 000/297] 5.15.140-rc1 review)

On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 01:21:22PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
[ ... ]
> 
> So I've got back to this and the failure is a subtle interaction between
> iomap code and ext4 code. In particular that fact that commit 936e114a245b6
> ("iomap: update ki_pos a little later in iomap_dio_complete") is not in
> stable causes that file position is not updated after direct IO write and
> thus we direct IO writes are ending in wrong locations effectively
> corrupting data. The subtle detail is that before this commit if ->end_io
> handler returns non-zero value (which the new ext4 ->end_io handler does),
> file pos doesn't get updated, after this commit it doesn't get updated only
> if the return value is < 0.
> 
> The commit got merged in 6.5-rc1 so all stable kernels that have
> 91562895f803 ("ext4: properly sync file size update after O_SYNC direct
> IO") before 6.5 are corrupting data - I've noticed at least 6.1 is still
> carrying the problematic commit. Greg, please take out the commit from all
> stable kernels before 6.5 as soon as possible, we'll figure out proper
> backport once user data are not being corrupted anymore. Thanks!
> 

Thanks a lot for the update.

Turns out this is causing a regression in chromeos-6.1, and reverting the
offending patch fixes the problem. I suspect anyone running v6.1.64+ may
have a problem.

Guenter