[PATCH] tmpfs: fix data loss from failed fallocate

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Sun Dec 04 2022 - 19:52:02 EST


Fix tmpfs data loss when the fallocate system call is interrupted by a
signal, or fails for some other reason. The partial folio handling in
shmem_undo_range() forgot to consider this unfalloc case, and was liable
to erase or truncate out data which had already been committed earlier.

It turns out that none of the partial folio handling there is appropriate
for the unfalloc case, which just wants to proceed to removal of whole
folios: which find_get_entries() provides, even when partially covered.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/33b85d82.7764.1842e9ab207.Coremail.chenguoqic@xxxxxxx/
Fixes: b9a8a4195c7d ("truncate,shmem: Handle truncates that split large folios")
Reported-by: Guoqi Chen <chenguoqic@xxxxxxx>
Original-patch-by: Rui Wang <kernel@xxxxxx>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.17+
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

mm/shmem.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

--- 6.1-rc8/mm/shmem.c
+++ linux/mm/shmem.c
@@ -948,6 +948,15 @@ static void shmem_undo_range(struct inod
index++;
}

+ /*
+ * When undoing a failed fallocate, we want none of the partial folio
+ * zeroing and splitting below, but shall want to truncate the whole
+ * folio when !uptodate indicates that it was added by this fallocate,
+ * even when [lstart, lend] covers only a part of the folio.
+ */
+ if (unfalloc)
+ goto whole_folios;
+
same_folio = (lstart >> PAGE_SHIFT) == (lend >> PAGE_SHIFT);
folio = shmem_get_partial_folio(inode, lstart >> PAGE_SHIFT);
if (folio) {
@@ -973,6 +982,8 @@ static void shmem_undo_range(struct inod
folio_put(folio);
}

+whole_folios:
+
index = start;
while (index < end) {
cond_resched();