Patch "ext4: fix races between buffered IO and collapse / insert range" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ext4: fix races between buffered IO and collapse / insert range

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ext4-fix-races-between-buffered-io-and-collapse-insert-range.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 32ebffd3bbb4162da5ff88f9a35dd32d0a28ea70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 14:31:11 -0500
Subject: ext4: fix races between buffered IO and collapse / insert range

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>

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@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/extents.c |   59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -5487,21 +5487,7 @@ 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
@@ -5526,6 +5512,27 @@ 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);
@@ -5626,21 +5633,7 @@ int ext4_insert_range(struct inode *inod
 			return ret;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Need to round down to align start offset to 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);
-
 	/* Currently just for extent based files */
 	if (!ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) {
 		ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
@@ -5668,6 +5661,16 @@ int ext4_insert_range(struct inode *inod
 	 * page cache.
 	 */
 	down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
+	/*
+	 * Need to round down to align start offset to 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)
+		goto out_mmap;
 	truncate_pagecache(inode, ioffset);
 
 	credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@suse.com are

queue-4.4/ext4-fix-races-between-page-faults-and-hole-punching.patch
queue-4.4/ext4-move-unlocked-dio-protection-from-ext4_alloc_file_blocks.patch
queue-4.4/ext4-fix-races-between-buffered-io-and-collapse-insert-range.patch
queue-4.4/ext4-fix-races-of-writeback-with-punch-hole-and-zero-range.patch