From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
To: Huiwen He <huiwen.he@linux.dev>,
linkinjeon@kernel.org, ronniesahlberg@gmail.com,
sprasad@microsoft.com, tom@talpey.com, bharathsm@microsoft.com,
senozhatsky@chromium.org, dhowells@redhat.com,
chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] smb/client: fix stale page cache in insert/collapse range
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:20:27 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34161ce396b2c966de08e120d5198b61@manguebit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260823151053.935889-7-huiwen.he@linux.dev>
Huiwen He <huiwen.he@linux.dev> writes:
> From: Huiwen He <hehuiwen@kylinos.cn>
>
> smb3_insert_range() and smb3_collapse_range() use
> truncate_pagecache_range() to invalidate the affected page cache.
> However, if off or old_eof is not page-aligned, the boundary pages are
> only partially zeroed and remain uptodate. As a result, the client may
> return stale data after a successful insert/collapse range operation.
>
> For example, with 4K pages:
>
> page 0 page 1 page 2
> 0------4K 4K------8K 8K------12K
> ^ ^
> off=2K old_eof=10K
>
> Page 1 is removed from the page cache, while the boundary pages are
> only partially zeroed. After COPYCHUNK moves the data on the server,
> these cached pages may still return stale data.
>
> This can be reproduced on a CIFS mount:
>
> bash -c '
> FILE=/mnt/scratch/repro
>
> # Use a 6 KiB file so EOF is not page-aligned.
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/src bs=1K count=6 status=none
>
> # Expected: a 4 KiB hole followed by the original data.
> rm -f /tmp/expected
> truncate -s 4K /tmp/expected
> cat /tmp/src >> /tmp/expected
>
> cp /tmp/src "$FILE"
>
> # Prime the page cache before moving data on the server.
> cat "$FILE" > /dev/null
>
> fallocate --insert-range -o 0 -l 4K "$FILE"
>
> if cmp -s /tmp/expected "$FILE"; then
> echo "readback: OK"
> else
> echo "readback: STALE DATA"
> fi
> '
>
> Fix this by writing back dirty data and discarding the page cache from
> the start of the page containing off to EOF before moving data on the
> server.
> ...
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-27 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-23 15:10 [PATCH v3 0/7] smb/client: fix fallocate range operation issues Huiwen He
2026-08-23 15:10 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] smb/client: validate new EOF for insert range Huiwen He
2026-08-27 2:07 ` Paulo Alcantara
2026-08-23 15:10 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] smb/client: validate new EOF for zero range Huiwen He
2026-08-27 2:08 ` Paulo Alcantara
2026-08-23 15:10 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] smb/client: mark file sparse before emulating insert range Huiwen He
2026-08-27 2:13 ` Paulo Alcantara
2026-08-27 3:18 ` hehuiwen
2026-08-23 15:10 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] smb/client: fix data corruption in emulated " Huiwen He
2026-08-27 2:19 ` Paulo Alcantara
2026-08-27 15:45 ` hehuiwen
2026-08-28 1:32 ` Paulo Alcantara
2026-08-23 15:10 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] smb/client: fix integer truncation in collapse range Huiwen He
2026-08-23 15:10 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] smb/client: fix stale page cache in insert/collapse range Huiwen He
2026-08-27 2:20 ` Paulo Alcantara [this message]
2026-08-23 15:10 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] smb/client: invalidate fscache for fallocate range operations Huiwen He
2026-08-27 2:20 ` Paulo Alcantara
2026-08-24 2:01 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] smb/client: fix fallocate range operation issues Namjae Jeon
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