[PATCH 49/52] ext4: fix delalloc i_disksize early update issue

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Sat Jul 05 2008 - 13:40:25 EST


From: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ext4_da_write_end() used walk_page_buffers() with a callback function of
ext4_bh_unmapped_or_delay() to check if it extended the file size
without allocating any blocks (since in this case i_disksize needs to be
updated). However, this is didn't work proprely because the buffer head
has not been marked dirty yet --- this is done later in
block_commit_write() --- which caused ext4_bh_unmapped_or_delay() to
always return false.

In addition, walk_page_buffers() checks all of the buffer heads covering
the page, and the only buffer_head that should be checked is the one
covering the end of the write. Otherwise, given a 1k blocksize
filesystem and a 4k page size, the buffer head covering the first 1k
stripe of the file could be unmapped (because it was a sparse file), and
the second or third buffer_head covering that page could be mapped, and
using walk_page_buffers() would fail in this case since it would stop at
the first unmapped buffer_head and return true.

The core problem is that walk_page_buffers() was intended to do work in
a callback function, and a non-zero return value indicated a failure,
which termined the walk of the buffer heads covering the page. It was
not intended to be used with a boolean function, such as
ext4_bh_unmapped_or_delay().

Add addtional fix from Aneesh to protect i_disksize update rave with truncate.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 6aa0ea8..5bacf73 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1891,6 +1891,29 @@ out:
return ret;
}

+/*
+ * Check if we should update i_disksize
+ * when write to the end of file but not require block allocation
+ */
+static int ext4_da_should_update_i_disksize(struct page *page,
+ unsigned long offset)
+{
+ struct buffer_head *bh;
+ struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+ unsigned int idx;
+ int i;
+
+ bh = page_buffers(page);
+ idx = offset >> inode->i_blkbits;
+
+ for (i=0; i < idx; i++)
+ bh = bh->b_this_page;
+
+ if (!buffer_mapped(bh) || (buffer_delay(bh)))
+ return 0;
+ return 1;
+}
+
static int ext4_da_write_end(struct file *file,
struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
@@ -1900,6 +1923,10 @@ static int ext4_da_write_end(struct file *file,
int ret = 0, ret2;
handle_t *handle = ext4_journal_current_handle();
loff_t new_i_size;
+ unsigned long start, end;
+
+ start = pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
+ end = start + copied -1;

/*
* generic_write_end() will run mark_inode_dirty() if i_size
@@ -1908,18 +1935,23 @@ static int ext4_da_write_end(struct file *file,
*/

new_i_size = pos + copied;
- if (new_i_size > EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize)
- if (!walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_buffers(page),
- 0, len, NULL, ext4_bh_unmapped_or_delay)){
- /*
- * Updating i_disksize when extending file without
- * needing block allocation
- */
- if (ext4_should_order_data(inode))
- ret = ext4_jbd2_file_inode(handle, inode);
+ if (new_i_size > EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize) {
+ if (ext4_da_should_update_i_disksize(page, end)) {
+ down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
+ if (new_i_size > EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize) {
+ /*
+ * Updating i_disksize when extending file
+ * without needing block allocation
+ */
+ if (ext4_should_order_data(inode))
+ ret = ext4_jbd2_file_inode(handle,
+ inode);

- EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = new_i_size;
+ EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = new_i_size;
+ }
+ up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
}
+ }
ret2 = generic_write_end(file, mapping, pos, len, copied,
page, fsdata);
copied = ret2;
@@ -2965,6 +2997,11 @@ void ext4_truncate(struct inode *inode)
goto out_stop;

/*
+ * From here we block out all ext4_get_block() callers who want to
+ * modify the block allocation tree.
+ */
+ down_write(&ei->i_data_sem);
+ /*
* The orphan list entry will now protect us from any crash which
* occurs before the truncate completes, so it is now safe to propagate
* the new, shorter inode size (held for now in i_size) into the
@@ -2973,12 +3010,6 @@ void ext4_truncate(struct inode *inode)
*/
ei->i_disksize = inode->i_size;

- /*
- * From here we block out all ext4_get_block() callers who want to
- * modify the block allocation tree.
- */
- down_write(&ei->i_data_sem);
-
if (n == 1) { /* direct blocks */
ext4_free_data(handle, inode, NULL, i_data+offsets[0],
i_data + EXT4_NDIR_BLOCKS);
--
1.5.6.rc3.1.g36b7.dirty

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