Re: [PATCH] cramfs corruption after BLKFLSBUF on loop device

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Thursday 01 June 2006 14:49, Olaf Hering wrote:
> This script will cause cramfs decompression errors, on SMP at least:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> while :;do blockdev --flushbufs /dev/loop0;done </dev/null &>/dev/null&
> while :;do ps faxs  </dev/null &>/dev/null&done </dev/null &>/dev/null&
> while :;do dmesg    </dev/null &>/dev/null&done </dev/null &>/dev/null&
> while :;do find /mounts/instsys -type f -print0|xargs -0 cat
> &>/dev/null;done

It looks as though:

* cramfs_readpage is synchronous
* cramfs_readpage always returns an up to date page
* cramfs data doesn't change
* read_cache_page as called by cramfs will always return a page that was 
up to date at one time, or an error.

I think this will work (but have not tested it).  Another option is to create 
a read_cache_page that pins the page via a page flag 
that invalidate_mapping_pages will honor.

-chris

diff -r a1a07af2d0cd fs/cramfs/inode.c
--- a/fs/cramfs/inode.c	Thu Jun 01 10:45:04 2006 -0400
+++ b/fs/cramfs/inode.c	Thu Jun 01 15:04:39 2006 -0400
@@ -190,18 +190,6 @@ static void *cramfs_read(struct super_bl
 		pages[i] = page;
 	}
 
-	for (i = 0; i < BLKS_PER_BUF; i++) {
-		struct page *page = pages[i];
-		if (page) {
-			wait_on_page_locked(page);
-			if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
-				/* asynchronous error */
-				page_cache_release(page);
-				pages[i] = NULL;
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
 	buffer = next_buffer;
 	next_buffer = NEXT_BUFFER(buffer);
 	buffer_blocknr[buffer] = blocknr;