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From: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
To: mason@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, cem@kernel.org,
	david@fromorbit.com, jack@suse.cz, djwong@kernel.org,
	josef@toxicpanda.com, hch@lst.de, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	tz2294@columbia.edu, brauner@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v8 00/15] reflink and atomic write bugs
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:02:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261112010229.51029-1-mason@kernel.org> (raw)

[ the send command got interrupted apologies for the two dups ]

This series did a few rounds privately, but looks ready for the list
now.  Carlos has accepted patches 1-4, but I've kept them here so the
whole series can still be tested.

Except for Christoph's patch, these were all found and fixed
by an LLM.

The meat of the series is fixing reflink corner cases that incorrectly
let you write into the source of a reflink.  LLMs also tripped over a
few ways to use atomic writes to expose stale blocks on the drive, and a
few races with realtime flag and extent size hint manipulations.

v7->v8:

Christoph pointed out that only page faults can cope with the -EAGAIN
from "xfs: restart faults racing with realtime flag changes".  pNFS is
the one other caller that can really get there, so now faults get
-EAGAIN and everyone else gets -EINVAL.

Sashiko had two complaints about the same patch.  The stale reservation
is fixed by the two "resample" patches.  Those are the rest of the 3
additional patches I promised in v7, I just managed to leave them out of
the posting.

The second complaint turned out to be on disk corruption for realtime
filesystems with extents bigger than one block, with nothing returning
an error.  That's the new "xfs: test for an extsize hint again under the
ILOCK".

While checking what a DAX fault does with the -EAGAIN, we found that DAX
and zoned inodes don't work together at all.  With a zoned filesystem on
pmem and dax=always, the first store into a mapped file oopses on
7.4-rc2, and so does ftruncate().  "xfs: don't enable DAX on zoned
inodes" turns DAX off for zoned inodes.

Added Christoph's review to "xfs: test for always COW after the dio
write checks".

v6->v7:

Sashiko noticed a few pre-existing corners that I had ignored, so we
have 3 additional patches dealing with races between FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR
and decisions about file writes.

"xfs: restart faults racing with realtime flag changes" changed enough
that I dropped Christoph's review.

Chris Mason (14):
  xfs: don't skip the flush before shifting extents
  xfs: flush the shifted range before changing the file
  xfs: don't change the block map under a dirty folio
  iomap: don't punch delalloc under a dirty EOF block
  fs: validate atomic writes after O_APPEND and limits
  xfs: recheck direct write alignment after write checks
  xfs: test for reflink after the dio write checks
  xfs: test for always COW after the dio write checks
  xfs: refuse fallocate racing with realtime flag changes
  xfs: restart faults racing with realtime flag changes
  xfs: test for an extsize hint again under the ILOCK
  xfs: resample the extsize hint after taking the ILOCK
  xfs: resample the COW extsize hint after cycling ILOCK
  xfs: don't enable DAX on zoned inodes

Christoph Hellwig (1):
  xfs: refuse writes to files racing with realtime inode flag changes

 fs/ext4/file.c         |   4 -
 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c |  34 ++++++++-
 fs/read_write.c        |  13 ++++
 fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c |  19 ++++-
 fs/xfs/xfs_file.c      | 167 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c     |   8 +-
 fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c     |  73 ++++++++++++++++--
 fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c      |   4 +
 fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c   |  16 +++-
 9 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)


             reply	other threads:[~2026-11-12  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-12  1:02 Chris Mason [this message]
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 01/15] xfs: don't skip the flush before shifting extents Chris Mason
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 02/15] xfs: flush the shifted range before changing the file Chris Mason
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 03/15] xfs: don't change the block map under a dirty folio Chris Mason
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 04/15] iomap: don't punch delalloc under a dirty EOF block Chris Mason
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 05/15] fs: validate atomic writes after O_APPEND and limits Chris Mason
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 06/15] xfs: recheck direct write alignment after write checks Chris Mason
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 07/15] xfs: test for reflink after the dio " Chris Mason
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 08/15] xfs: refuse writes to files racing with realtime inode flag changes Chris Mason
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 09/15] xfs: test for always COW after the dio write checks Chris Mason
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 10/15] xfs: refuse fallocate racing with realtime flag changes Chris Mason
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 11/15] xfs: restart faults " Chris Mason
2026-11-12 13:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 12/15] xfs: test for an extsize hint again under the ILOCK Chris Mason
2026-11-12 13:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 13/15] xfs: resample the extsize hint after taking " Chris Mason
2026-11-12 13:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-11-12 13:49     ` Chris Mason
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 14/15] xfs: resample the COW extsize hint after cycling ILOCK Chris Mason
2026-11-12 13:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-11-12  1:02 ` [PATCH v8 15/15] xfs: don't enable DAX on zoned inodes Chris Mason
2026-11-12 13:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-11-12  1:00 [PATCH v8 00/15] reflink and atomic write bugs Chris Mason

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