The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-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.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:02:43 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] fs: fix lazytime expiration handling in __writeback_single_inode()
When lazytime is enabled and an inode is being written due to its in-memory updated timestamps having expired, either due to a sync() or syncfs() system call or due to dirtytime_expire_interval having elapsed, the VFS needs to inform the filesystem so that the filesystem can copy the inode's timestamps out to the on-disk data structures.
This is done by __writeback_single_inode() calling mark_inode_dirty_sync(), which then calls ->dirty_inode(I_DIRTY_SYNC).
However, this occurs after __writeback_single_inode() has already cleared the dirty flags from ->i_state. This causes two bugs:
- mark_inode_dirty_sync() redirties the inode, causing it to remain dirty. This wastefully causes the inode to be written twice. But more importantly, it breaks cases where sync_filesystem() is expected to clean dirty inodes. This includes the FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl (as reported at https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200306004555.GB225345@gmail.com), as well as possibly filesystem freezing (freeze_super()).
- Since ->i_state doesn't contain I_DIRTY_TIME when ->dirty_inode() is called from __writeback_single_inode() for lazytime expiration, xfs_fs_dirty_inode() ignores the notification. (XFS only cares about lazytime expirations, and it assumes that i_state will contain I_DIRTY_TIME during those.) Therefore, lazy timestamps aren't persisted by sync(), syncfs(), or dirtytime_expire_interval on XFS.
Fix this by moving the call to mark_inode_dirty_sync() to earlier in __writeback_single_inode(), before the dirty flags are cleared from i_state. This makes filesystems be properly notified of the timestamp expiration, and it avoids incorrectly redirtying the inode.
This fixes xfstest generic/580 (which tests FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY) when run on ext4 or f2fs with lazytime enabled. It also fixes the new lazytime xfstest I've proposed, which reproduces the above-mentioned XFS bug (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105005818.92978-1-ebiggers@kernel.org).
Alternatively, we could call ->dirty_inode(I_DIRTY_SYNC) directly. But due to the introduction of I_SYNC_QUEUED, mark_inode_dirty_sync() is the right thing to do because mark_inode_dirty_sync() now knows not to move the inode to a writeback list if it is currently queued for sync.
Fixes: 0ae45f63d4ef ("vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Depends-on: 5afced3bf281 ("writeback: Avoid skipping inode writeback") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-2-ebiggers@kernel.org Suggested-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com Signed-off-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index acfb55834af2..c41cb887eb7d 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -1474,21 +1474,25 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) }
/* - * Some filesystems may redirty the inode during the writeback - * due to delalloc, clear dirty metadata flags right before - * write_inode() + * If the inode has dirty timestamps and we need to write them, call + * mark_inode_dirty_sync() to notify the filesystem about it and to + * change I_DIRTY_TIME into I_DIRTY_SYNC. */ - spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); - - dirty = inode->i_state & I_DIRTY; if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) && - ((dirty & I_DIRTY_INODE) || - wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->for_sync || + (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->for_sync || time_after(jiffies, inode->dirtied_time_when + dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ))) { - dirty |= I_DIRTY_TIME; trace_writeback_lazytime(inode); + mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode); } + + /* + * Some filesystems may redirty the inode during the writeback + * due to delalloc, clear dirty metadata flags right before + * write_inode() + */ + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); + dirty = inode->i_state & I_DIRTY; inode->i_state &= ~dirty;
/* @@ -1509,8 +1513,6 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
- if (dirty & I_DIRTY_TIME) - mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode); /* Don't write the inode if only I_DIRTY_PAGES was set */ if (dirty & ~I_DIRTY_PAGES) { int err = write_inode(inode, wbc);