This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFS: Fix a race between mmap() and O_DIRECT
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: nfs-fix-a-race-between-mmap-and-o_direct.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From e231c6879cfd44e4fffd384bb6dd7d313249a523 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 09:29:41 -0500 Subject: NFS: Fix a race between mmap() and O_DIRECT
From: Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com
commit e231c6879cfd44e4fffd384bb6dd7d313249a523 upstream.
When locking the file in order to do O_DIRECT on it, we must unmap any mmapped ranges on the pagecache so that we can flush out the dirty data.
Fixes: a5864c999de67 ("NFS: Do not serialise O_DIRECT reads and writes") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/nfs/io.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/nfs/io.c +++ b/fs/nfs/io.c @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static void nfs_block_buffered(struct nf { if (!test_bit(NFS_INO_ODIRECT, &nfsi->flags)) { set_bit(NFS_INO_ODIRECT, &nfsi->flags); - nfs_wb_all(inode); + nfs_sync_mapping(inode->i_mapping); } }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@primarydata.com are
queue-4.15/nfs-pnfs-fix-nfs_direct_req-ref-leak-when-i-o-falls-back-to-the-mds.patch queue-4.15/nfsd-detect-unhashed-stids-in-nfsd4_verify_open_stid.patch queue-4.15/nfs-fix-nfsstat-breakage-due-to-lookupp.patch queue-4.15/nfs-add-a-cond_resched-to-nfs_commit_release_pages.patch queue-4.15/nfs41-do-not-return-enomem-on-layoutunavailable.patch queue-4.15/nfs-commit-direct-writes-even-if-they-fail-partially.patch queue-4.15/nfs-fix-a-race-between-mmap-and-o_direct.patch