Patch "ext4: fix races of writeback with punch hole and zero range" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

@@ -2881,6 +2881,9 @@ static inline int ext4_update_inode_size
 	return changed;
 }
 
+int ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
+				      loff_t len);
+
 struct ext4_group_info {
 	unsigned long   bb_state;
 	struct rb_root  bb_free_root;

@@ -4847,6 +4847,11 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file
 		 * released from page cache.
 		 */
 		down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
+		ret = ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(inode, offset, len);
+		if (ret) {
+			up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
+			goto out_dio;
+		}
 		/* Now release the pages and zero block aligned part of pages */
 		truncate_pagecache_range(inode, start, end - 1);
 		inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);

@@ -3587,6 +3587,35 @@ int ext4_can_truncate(struct inode *inod
 }
 
 /*
+ * We have to make sure i_disksize gets properly updated before we truncate
+ * page cache due to hole punching or zero range. Otherwise i_disksize update
+ * can get lost as it may have been postponed to submission of writeback but
+ * that will never happen after we truncate page cache.
+ */
+int ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
+				      loff_t len)
+{
+	handle_t *handle;
+	loff_t size = i_size_read(inode);
+
+	WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex));
+	if (offset > size || offset + len < size)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize >= size)
+		return 0;
+
+	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MISC, 1);
+	if (IS_ERR(handle))
+		return PTR_ERR(handle);
+	ext4_update_i_disksize(inode, size);
+	ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
+	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
  * ext4_punch_hole: punches a hole in a file by releaseing the blocks
  * associated with the given offset and length
  *

@@ -3664,9 +3693,13 @@ int ext4_punch_hole(struct inode *inode,
 	last_block_offset = round_down((offset + length), sb->s_blocksize) - 1;
 
 	/* Now release the pages and zero block aligned part of pages*/
-	if (last_block_offset > first_block_offset)
+	if (last_block_offset > first_block_offset) {
+		ret = ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(inode, offset, length);
+		if (ret)
+			goto out_dio;
 		truncate_pagecache_range(inode, first_block_offset,
 					 last_block_offset);
+	}
 
 	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS))
 		credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);