[PATCH 3.16 016/245] ext4: fix races between buffered IO and collapse / insert range

[Ben Hutchings]

3.16.83-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>

commit 32ebffd3bbb4162da5ff88f9a35dd32d0a28ea70 upstream.

Current code implementing FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE and
FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE is prone to races with buffered writes and page
faults. If buffered write or write via mmap manages to squeeze between
filemap_write_and_wait_range() and truncate_pagecache() in the fallocate
implementations, the written data is simply discarded by
truncate_pagecache() although it should have been shifted.

Fix the problem by moving filemap_write_and_wait_range() call inside
i_mutex and i_mmap_sem. That way we are protected against races with
both buffered writes and page faults.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: drop changes in ext4_insert_range()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -5453,21 +5453,7 @@ int ext4_collapse_range(struct inode *in
 			return ret;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Need to round down offset to be aligned with page size boundary
-	 * for page size > block size.
-	 */
-	ioffset = round_down(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
-
-	/* Write out all dirty pages */
-	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, ioffset,
-					   LLONG_MAX);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	/* Take mutex lock */
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
 	/*
 	 * There is no need to overlap collapse range with EOF, in which case
 	 * it is effectively a truncate operation
@@ -5492,6 +5478,27 @@ int ext4_collapse_range(struct inode *in
 	 * page cache.
 	 */
 	down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
+	/*
+	 * Need to round down offset to be aligned with page size boundary
+	 * for page size > block size.
+	 */
+	ioffset = round_down(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
+	/*
+	 * Write tail of the last page before removed range since it will get
+	 * removed from the page cache below.
+	 */
+	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, ioffset, offset);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out_mmap;
+	/*
+	 * Write data that will be shifted to preserve them when discarding
+	 * page cache below. We are also protected from pages becoming dirty
+	 * by i_mmap_sem.
+	 */
+	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, offset + len,
+					   LLONG_MAX);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out_mmap;
 	truncate_pagecache(inode, ioffset);
 
 	credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);