Patch "xfs: don't free cowblocks from under dirty pagecache on unshare" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    xfs: don't free cowblocks from under dirty pagecache on unshare

to the 6.6-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:
     xfs-don-t-free-cowblocks-from-under-dirty-pagecache-on-unshare.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 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 stable+bounces-113972-greg=kroah.com@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb  5 22:40:54 2025
From: Catherine Hoang <catherine.hoang@oracle.com>
Date: Wed,  5 Feb 2025 13:40:07 -0800
Subject: xfs: don't free cowblocks from under dirty pagecache on unshare
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xfs-stable@lists.linux.dev
Message-ID: <20250205214025.72516-7-catherine.hoang@oracle.com>

From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

commit 4390f019ad7866c3791c3d768d2ff185d89e8ebe upstream.

fallocate unshare mode explicitly breaks extent sharing. When a
command completes, it checks the data fork for any remaining shared
extents to determine whether the reflink inode flag and COW fork
preallocation can be removed. This logic doesn't consider in-core
pagecache and I/O state, however, which means we can unsafely remove
COW fork blocks that are still needed under certain conditions.

For example, consider the following command sequence:

xfs_io -fc "pwrite 0 1k" -c "reflink <file> 0 256k 1k" \
	-c "pwrite 0 32k" -c "funshare 0 1k" <file>

This allocates a data block at offset 0, shares it, and then
overwrites it with a larger buffered write. The overwrite triggers
COW fork preallocation, 32 blocks by default, which maps the entire
32k write to delalloc in the COW fork. All but the shared block at
offset 0 remains hole mapped in the data fork. The unshare command
redirties and flushes the folio at offset 0, removing the only
shared extent from the inode. Since the inode no longer maps shared
extents, unshare purges the COW fork before the remaining 28k may
have written back.

This leaves dirty pagecache backed by holes, which writeback quietly
skips, thus leaving clean, non-zeroed pagecache over holes in the
file. To verify, fiemap shows holes in the first 32k of the file and
reads return different data across a remount:

$ xfs_io -c "fiemap -v" <file>
<file>:
 EXT: FILE-OFFSET      BLOCK-RANGE      TOTAL FLAGS
   ...
   1: [8..511]:        hole               504
   ...
$ xfs_io -c "pread -v 4k 8" <file>
00001000:  cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd  ........
$ umount <mnt>; mount <dev> <mnt>
$ xfs_io -c "pread -v 4k 8" <file>
00001000:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........

To avoid this problem, make unshare follow the same rules used for
background cowblock scanning and never purge the COW fork for inodes
with dirty pagecache or in-flight I/O.

Fixes: 46afb0628b86347 ("xfs: only flush the unshared range in xfs_reflink_unshare")
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Hoang <catherine.hoang@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c  |    8 +-------
 fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c |    3 +++
 fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.h |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c
@@ -1271,13 +1271,7 @@ xfs_prep_free_cowblocks(
 	 */
 	if (!sync && inode_is_open_for_write(VFS_I(ip)))
 		return false;
-	if ((VFS_I(ip)->i_state & I_DIRTY_PAGES) ||
-	    mapping_tagged(VFS_I(ip)->i_mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY) ||
-	    mapping_tagged(VFS_I(ip)->i_mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK) ||
-	    atomic_read(&VFS_I(ip)->i_dio_count))
-		return false;
-
-	return true;
+	return xfs_can_free_cowblocks(ip);
 }
 
 /*
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c
@@ -1600,6 +1600,9 @@ xfs_reflink_clear_inode_flag(
 
 	ASSERT(xfs_is_reflink_inode(ip));
 
+	if (!xfs_can_free_cowblocks(ip))
+		return 0;
+
 	error = xfs_reflink_inode_has_shared_extents(*tpp, ip, &needs_flag);
 	if (error || needs_flag)
 		return error;
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.h
@@ -16,6 +16,25 @@ static inline bool xfs_is_cow_inode(stru
 	return xfs_is_reflink_inode(ip) || xfs_is_always_cow_inode(ip);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Check whether it is safe to free COW fork blocks from an inode. It is unsafe
+ * to do so when an inode has dirty cache or I/O in-flight, even if no shared
+ * extents exist in the data fork, because outstanding I/O may target blocks
+ * that were speculatively allocated to the COW fork.
+ */
+static inline bool
+xfs_can_free_cowblocks(struct xfs_inode *ip)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = VFS_I(ip);
+
+	if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_PAGES) ||
+	    mapping_tagged(inode->i_mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY) ||
+	    mapping_tagged(inode->i_mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK) ||
+	    atomic_read(&inode->i_dio_count))
+		return false;
+	return true;
+}
+
 extern int xfs_reflink_trim_around_shared(struct xfs_inode *ip,
 		struct xfs_bmbt_irec *irec, bool *shared);
 int xfs_bmap_trim_cow(struct xfs_inode *ip, struct xfs_bmbt_irec *imap,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from catherine.hoang@oracle.com are

queue-6.6/xfs-return-bool-from-xfs_attr3_leaf_add.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-fix-a-sloppy-memory-handling-bug-in-xfs_iroot_realloc.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-streamline-xfs_filestream_pick_ag.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-merge-xfs_attr_leaf_try_add-into-xfs_attr_leaf_addname.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-don-t-free-cowblocks-from-under-dirty-pagecache-on-unshare.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-pass-the-exact-range-to-initialize-to-xfs_initialize_perag.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-assert-a-valid-limit-in-xfs_rtfind_forw.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-don-t-use-__gfp_retry_mayfail-in-xfs_initialize_perag.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-use-try_cmpxchg-in-xlog_cil_insert_pcp_aggregate.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-don-t-ifdef-around-the-exact-minlen-allocations.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-reduce-unnecessary-searches-when-searching-for-the-best-extents.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-validate-inumber-in-xfs_iget.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-support-lowmode-allocations-in-xfs_bmap_exact_minlen_extent_alloc.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-skip-background-cowblock-trims-on-inodes-open-for-write.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-remove-empty-declartion-in-header-file.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-fold-xfs_bmap_alloc_userdata-into-xfs_bmapi_allocate.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-update-the-file-system-geometry-after-recoverying-superblock-buffers.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-call-xfs_bmap_exact_minlen_extent_alloc-from-xfs_bmap_btalloc.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-distinguish-extra-split-from-real-enospc-from-xfs_attr_node_try_addname.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-error-out-when-a-superblock-buffer-update-reduces-the-agcount.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-update-the-pag-for-the-last-ag-at-recovery-time.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-check-for-delayed-allocations-before-setting-extsize.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-fix-a-typo.patch
queue-6.6/xfs-distinguish-extra-split-from-real-enospc-from-xfs_attr3_leaf_split.patch