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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ext4: return to starting transaction in ext4_dax_huge_fault()" failed to apply to 4.10-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

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greg k-h

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From fb26a1cbed8c90025572d48bc9eabe59f7571e88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 15:46:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: return to starting transaction in ext4_dax_huge_fault()

DAX will return to locking exceptional entry before mapping blocks for a page fault to fix possible races with concurrent writes. To avoid lock inversion between exceptional entry lock and transaction start, start the transaction already in ext4_dax_huge_fault().

Fixes 9f141d6ef6258a3a37a045842d9ba7e68f368956
Link http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] open here
Signed-off-by Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc Ross Zwisler <[email protected]>
Cc Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
fs/ext4/file.c +17 -4
index cefa9835f275..831fd6beebf0 100644
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ static int ext4_dax_huge_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 		enum page_entry_size pe_size)
 {
 	int result;
+	handle_t *handle = NULL;
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(vmf->vma->vm_file);
 	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
 	bool write = vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;

@@ -264,12 +265,24 @@ static int ext4_dax_huge_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	if (write) {
 		sb_start_pagefault(sb);
 		file_update_time(vmf->vma->vm_file);
+		down_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
+		handle = ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, EXT4_HT_WRITE_PAGE,
+					       EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(sb));
+	} else {
+		down_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
 	}
-	down_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
-	result = dax_iomap_fault(vmf, pe_size, &ext4_iomap_ops);
-	up_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
-	if (write)
+	if (!IS_ERR(handle))
+		result = dax_iomap_fault(vmf, pe_size, &ext4_iomap_ops);
+	else
+		result = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+	if (write) {
+		if (!IS_ERR(handle))
+			ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+		up_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
 		sb_end_pagefault(sb);
+	} else {
+		up_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
+	}
 
 	return result;
 }