Patch "ext4: fix races between buffered IO and collapse / insert range" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

@@ -5487,21 +5487,7 @@ int ext4_collapse_range(struct inode *in
 			return ret;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Need to round down offset to be aligned with page size boundary
-	 * for page size > block size.
-	 */
-	ioffset = round_down(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
-
-	/* Write out all dirty pages */
-	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, ioffset,
-					   LLONG_MAX);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	/* Take mutex lock */
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
 	/*
 	 * There is no need to overlap collapse range with EOF, in which case
 	 * it is effectively a truncate operation

@@ -5526,6 +5512,27 @@ int ext4_collapse_range(struct inode *in
 	 * page cache.
 	 */
 	down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
+	/*
+	 * Need to round down offset to be aligned with page size boundary
+	 * for page size > block size.
+	 */
+	ioffset = round_down(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
+	/*
+	 * Write tail of the last page before removed range since it will get
+	 * removed from the page cache below.
+	 */
+	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, ioffset, offset);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out_mmap;
+	/*
+	 * Write data that will be shifted to preserve them when discarding
+	 * page cache below. We are also protected from pages becoming dirty
+	 * by i_mmap_sem.
+	 */
+	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, offset + len,
+					   LLONG_MAX);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out_mmap;
 	truncate_pagecache(inode, ioffset);
 
 	credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);

@@ -5626,21 +5633,7 @@ int ext4_insert_range(struct inode *inod
 			return ret;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Need to round down to align start offset to page size boundary
-	 * for page size > block size.
-	 */
-	ioffset = round_down(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
-
-	/* Write out all dirty pages */
-	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, ioffset,
-			LLONG_MAX);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	/* Take mutex lock */
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
 	/* Currently just for extent based files */
 	if (!ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) {
 		ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;

@@ -5668,6 +5661,16 @@ int ext4_insert_range(struct inode *inod
 	 * page cache.
 	 */
 	down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
+	/*
+	 * Need to round down to align start offset to page size boundary
+	 * for page size > block size.
+	 */
+	ioffset = round_down(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
+	/* Write out all dirty pages */
+	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, ioffset,
+			LLONG_MAX);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out_mmap;
 	truncate_pagecache(inode, ioffset);
 
 	credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);