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ext4: fix bh->b_state corruption
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Fri, 19 Feb 2016 05:18:25 +0000 (00:18 -0500)
committerTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Wed, 6 Apr 2016 09:22:16 +0000 (10:22 +0100)
commitac1035c243f2d8316dae584657c52c75a98222f0
treec18c3d4b87bfd2bd68b84bb8c9d250a462dc8d24
parent1b566d0999c7232bfed118c6c097d42d388d029a
ext4: fix bh->b_state corruption

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553179
commit ed8ad83808f009ade97ebbf6519bc3a97fefbc0c upstream.

ext4 can update bh->b_state non-atomically in _ext4_get_block() and
ext4_da_get_block_prep(). Usually this is fine since bh is just a
temporary storage for mapping information on stack but in some cases it
can be fully living bh attached to a page. In such case non-atomic
update of bh->b_state can race with an atomic update which then gets
lost. Usually when we are mapping bh and thus updating bh->b_state
non-atomically, nobody else touches the bh and so things work out fine
but there is one case to especially worry about: ext4_finish_bio() uses
BH_Uptodate_Lock on the first bh in the page to synchronize handling of
PageWriteback state. So when blocksize < pagesize, we can be atomically
modifying bh->b_state of a buffer that actually isn't under IO and thus
can race e.g. with delalloc trying to map that buffer. The result is
that we can mistakenly set / clear BH_Uptodate_Lock bit resulting in the
corruption of PageWriteback state or missed unlock of BH_Uptodate_Lock.

Fix the problem by always updating bh->b_state bits atomically.

Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
[NB: Backported to 4.4.2]
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
fs/ext4/inode.c