* Jan Kara jack@suse.cz:

Eric has noticed that after pagecache read rework, generic/418 is occasionally failing for ext4 when blocksize < pagesize. In fact, the pagecache rework just made hard to hit race in ext4 more likely. The problem is that since ext4 conversion of direct IO writes to iomap framework (commit 378f32bab371), we update inode size after direct IO write only after invalidating page cache. Thus if buffered read sneaks at unfortunate moment like:

CPU1 - write at offset 1k CPU2 - read from offset 0 iomap_dio_rw(..., IOMAP_DIO_FORCE_WAIT); ext4_readpage(); ext4_handle_inode_extension()

the read will zero out tail of the page as it still sees smaller inode size and thus page cache becomes inconsistent with on-disk contents with all the consequences.

Fix the problem by moving inode size update into end_io handler which gets called before the page cache is invalidated.

Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Whitney enwlinux@gmail.com Fixes: 378f32bab371 ("ext4: introduce direct I/O write using iomap infrastructure") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz

---

fs/ext4/file.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c index 194f5d00fa32..7924634ab0bf 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/file.c +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c @@ -371,15 +371,32 @@ static ssize_t ext4_handle_inode_extension(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, static int ext4_dio_write_end_io(struct kiocb *iocb, ssize_t size, int error, unsigned int flags) {

• loff_t offset = iocb->ki_pos;

• loff_t pos = iocb->ki_pos; struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);

if (error) return error;

• if (size && flags & IOMAP_DIO_UNWRITTEN)

• return ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(NULL, inode,
  

• 				      offset, size);
  

• if (size && flags & IOMAP_DIO_UNWRITTEN) {

• error = ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(NULL, inode, pos, size);
  

• if (error < 0)
  

• 	return error;
  

• }
• /*

• * If we are extending the file, we have to update i_size here before
  

• * page cache gets invalidated in iomap_dio_rw(). Otherwise racing
  

• * buffered reads could zero out too much from page cache pages. Update
  

• * of on-disk size will happen later in ext4_dio_write_iter() where
  

• * we have enough information to also perform orphan list handling etc.
  

• * Note that we perform all extending writes synchronously under
  

• * i_rwsem held exclusively so i_size update is safe here in that case.
  

• * If the write was not extending, we cannot see pos > i_size here
  

• * because operations reducing i_size like truncate wait for all
  

• * outstanding DIO before updating i_size.
  

• */
  

• pos += size;
• if (pos > i_size_read(inode))

• i_size_write(inode, pos);
  

return 0; } -- 2.26.2

With additional data, the generic/068 failure I saw on the data=journal test configuration when testing the v2 version of this patch doesn't appear to be a regression. 100 runs of 068 on a v2 patched -rc7 kernel failed five times, and it failed three times on an unpatched -rc7 kernel. So, that failure is most likely a latent problem unrelated to this patch.

Thanks, Eric