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Fix race in xfs_write() between direct and buffered I/O with DMAPI

PATCH New Lachlan McIlroy 1 participant 1 message Sep 22, 2008 XFS filesystem

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PATCH 1/1 Fix race in xfs_write() between direct and buffered I/O with DMAPI

The iolock is dropped and re-acquired around the call to XFS_SEND_NAMESP(). While the iolock is released the file can become cached. We then 'goto retry' and - if we are doing direct I/O - mapping->nrpages may now be non zero but need_i_mutex will be zero and we will hit the WARN_ON().

Since we have dropped the I/O lock then the file size may have also changed so what we need to do here is 'goto start' like we do for the XFS_SEND_DATA() DMAPI event.

We also need to update the filesize before releasing the iolock so that needs to be done before the XFS_SEND_NAMESP event. If we drop the iolock before setting the filesize we could race with a truncate.

fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c +0 -0
@@ -707,7 +707,6 @@ start:
		}
	}

-retry:

	/* We can write back this queue in page reclaim */
	current->backing_dev_info = mapping->backing_dev_info;

@@ -763,6 +762,17 @@ retry:

	if (ret == -EIOCBQUEUED && !(ioflags & IO_ISAIO))
		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(iocb);

+ isize = i_size_read(inode);
+ if (unlikely(ret < 0 && ret != -EFAULT && *offset > isize))
+ *offset = isize;
+
+ if (*offset > xip->i_size) {
+ xfs_ilock(xip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
+ if (*offset > xip->i_size)
+ xip->i_size = *offset;
+ xfs_iunlock(xip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
+ }
+

	if (ret == -ENOSPC &&
	    DM_EVENT_ENABLED(xip, DM_EVENT_NOSPACE) && !(ioflags & IO_INVIS)) {
		xfs_iunlock(xip, iolock);
@@ -776,20 +786,7 @@ retry:
		xfs_ilock(xip, iolock);
		if (error)
			goto out_unlock_internal;

- pos = xip->i_size;
- ret = 0;
- goto retry;
- }
-
- isize = i_size_read(inode);
- if (unlikely(ret < 0 && ret != -EFAULT && *offset > isize))
- *offset = isize;
-
- if (*offset > xip->i_size) {
- xfs_ilock(xip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
- if (*offset > xip->i_size)
- xip->i_size = *offset;
- xfs_iunlock(xip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);

+		goto start;
	}

	error = -ret;