[PATCH v2 1/2] iomap: fix handling of dirty folios over unwritten extents

Brian Foster
2024-08-28T18:18:20Z

The iomap zero range implementation doesn't properly handle dirty
pagecache over unwritten mappings. It skips such mappings as if they
were pre-zeroed. If some part of an unwritten mapping is dirty in
pagecache from a previous write, the data in cache should be zeroed
as well. Instead, the data is left in cache and creates a stale data
exposure problem if writeback occurs sometime after the zero range.

Most callers are unaffected by this because the higher level
filesystem contexts that call zero range typically perform a filemap
flush of the target range for other reasons. A couple contexts that
don't otherwise need to flush are write file size extension and
truncate in XFS. The former path is currently susceptible to the
stale data exposure problem and the latter performs a flush
specifically to work around it.

This is clearly inconsistent and incomplete. As a first step toward
correcting behavior, lift the XFS workaround to iomap_zero_range()
and unconditionally flush the range before the zero range operation
proceeds. While this appears to be a bit of a big hammer, most all
users already do this from calling context save for the couple of
exceptions noted above. Future patches will optimize or elide this
flush while maintaining functional correctness.

Fixes: ae259a9c8593 ("fs: introduce iomap infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
---
fs/iomap/buffered-io.c | 10 ++++++++++
fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 10 ----------
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
index f420c53d86ac..3e846f43ff48 100644
--- a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
+++ b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
@@ -1451,6 +1451,16 @@ iomap_zero_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t len, bool *did_zero,
};
int ret;

+ /*
+ * Zero range wants to skip pre-zeroed (i.e. unwritten) mappings, but
+ * pagecache must be flushed to ensure stale data from previous
+ * buffered writes is not exposed.
+ */
+ ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping,
+ pos, pos + len - 1);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
while ((ret = iomap_iter(&iter, ops)) > 0)
iter.processed = iomap_zero_iter(&iter, did_zero);
return ret;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
index 1cdc8034f54d..ddd3697e6ecd 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
@@ -870,16 +870,6 @@ xfs_setattr_size(
error = xfs_zero_range(ip, oldsize, newsize - oldsize,
&did_zeroing);
} else {
- /*
- * iomap won't detect a dirty page over an unwritten block (or a
- * cow block over a hole) and subsequently skips zeroing the
- * newly post-EOF portion of the page. Flush the new EOF to
- * convert the block before the pagecache truncate.
- */
- error = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, newsize,
- newsize);
- if (error)
- return error;
error = xfs_truncate_page(ip, newsize, &did_zeroing);
}

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2.45.0