The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-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 stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x efa11fd269c139e29b71ec21bc9c9c0063fde40d # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025030406-snowcap-stagnate-0d6c@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..
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thanks,
greg k-h
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From efa11fd269c139e29b71ec21bc9c9c0063fde40d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:06:33 +1030 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: fix data overwriting bug during buffered write when block size < page size
[BUG] When running generic/418 with a btrfs whose block size < page size (subpage cases), it always fails.
And the following minimal reproducer is more than enough to trigger it reliably:
workload() { mkfs.btrfs -s 4k -f $dev > /dev/null dmesg -C mount $dev $mnt $fsstree_dir/src/dio-invalidate-cache -r -b 4096 -n 3 -i 1 -f $mnt/diotest ret=$? umount $mnt stop_trace if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then fail fi }
for (( i = 0; i < 1024; i++)); do echo "=== $i/$runtime ===" workload done
[CAUSE] With extra trace printk added to the following functions: - btrfs_buffered_write() * Which folio is touched * The file offset (start) where the buffered write is at * How many bytes are copied * The content of the write (the first 2 bytes)
- submit_one_sector() * Which folio is touched * The position inside the folio * The content of the page cache (the first 2 bytes)
- pagecache_isize_extended() * The parameters of the function itself * The parameters of the folio_zero_range()
Which are enough to show the problem:
22.158114: btrfs_buffered_write: folio pos=0 start=0 copied=4096 content=0x0101 22.158161: submit_one_sector: r/i=5/257 folio=0 pos=0 content=0x0101 22.158609: btrfs_buffered_write: folio pos=0 start=4096 copied=4096 content=0x0101 22.158634: btrfs_buffered_write: folio pos=0 start=8192 copied=4096 content=0x0101 22.158650: pagecache_isize_extended: folio=0 from=4096 to=8192 bsize=4096 zero off=4096 len=8192 22.158682: submit_one_sector: r/i=5/257 folio=0 pos=4096 content=0x0000 22.158686: submit_one_sector: r/i=5/257 folio=0 pos=8192 content=0x0101
The tool dio-invalidate-cache will start 3 threads, each doing a buffered write with 0x01 at offset 0, 4096 and 8192, do a fsync, then do a direct read, and compare the read buffer with the write buffer.
Note that all 3 btrfs_buffered_write() are writing the correct 0x01 into the page cache.
But at submit_one_sector(), at file offset 4096, the content is zeroed out, by pagecache_isize_extended().
The race happens like this: Thread A is writing into range [4K, 8K). Thread B is writing into range [8K, 12k).
Thread A | Thread B -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ btrfs_buffered_write() | btrfs_buffered_write() |- old_isize = 4K; | |- old_isize = 4096; |- btrfs_inode_lock() | | |- write into folio range [4K, 8K) | | |- pagecache_isize_extended() | | | extend isize from 4096 to 8192 | | | no folio_zero_range() called | | |- btrfs_inode_lock() | | | |- btrfs_inode_lock() | |- write into folio range [8K, 12K) | |- pagecache_isize_extended() | | calling folio_zero_range(4K, 8K) | | This is caused by the old_isize is | | grabbed too early, without any | | inode lock. | |- btrfs_inode_unlock()
The @old_isize is grabbed without inode lock, causing race between two buffered write threads and making pagecache_isize_extended() to zero range which is still containing cached data.
And this is only affecting subpage btrfs, because for regular blocksize == page size case, the function pagecache_isize_extended() will do nothing if the block size >= page size.
[FIX] Grab the old i_size while holding the inode lock. This means each buffered write thread will have a stable view of the old inode size, thus avoid the above race.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15+ Fixes: 5e8b9ef30392 ("btrfs: move pos increment and pagecache extension to btrfs_buffered_write") Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c index ed3c0d6546c5..0b568c8d24cb 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c @@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ ssize_t btrfs_buffered_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *i) u64 lockend; size_t num_written = 0; ssize_t ret; - loff_t old_isize = i_size_read(inode); + loff_t old_isize; unsigned int ilock_flags = 0; const bool nowait = (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT); unsigned int bdp_flags = (nowait ? BDP_ASYNC : 0); @@ -1103,6 +1103,13 @@ ssize_t btrfs_buffered_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *i) if (ret < 0) return ret;
+ /* + * We can only trust the isize with inode lock held, or it can race with + * other buffered writes and cause incorrect call of + * pagecache_isize_extended() to overwrite existing data. + */ + old_isize = i_size_read(inode); + ret = generic_write_checks(iocb, i); if (ret <= 0) goto out;