[patch 03/38] NFS: Fix a potential file corruption issue when writing

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

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2.6.24-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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 From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

patch 5d47a35600270e7115061cb1320ee60ae9bcb6b8 in mainline.

If the inode is flagged as having an invalid mapping, then we can't rely on
the PageUptodate() flag. Ensure that we don't use the "anti-fragmentation"
write optimisation in nfs_updatepage(), since that will cause NFS to write
out areas of the page that are no longer guaranteed to be up to date.

A potential corruption could occur in the following scenario:

client 1			client 2
===============			===============
				fd=open("f",O_CREAT|O_WRONLY,0644);
				write(fd,"fubar\n",6);	// cache last page
				close(fd);
fd=open("f",O_WRONLY|O_APPEND);
write(fd,"foo\n",4);
close(fd);

				fd=open("f",O_WRONLY|O_APPEND);
				write(fd,"bar\n",4);
				close(fd);
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The bug may lead to the file "f" reading 'fubar\n\0\0\0\nbar\n' because
client 2 does not update the cached page after re-opening the file for
write. Instead it keeps it marked as PageUptodate() until someone calls
invalidate_inode_pages2() (typically by calling read()).

The bug was introduced by commit 44b11874ff583b6e766a05856b04f3c492c32b84
"NFS: Separate metadata and page cache revalidation mechanisms"

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 fs/nfs/write.c |   20 +++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -701,6 +701,17 @@ int nfs_flush_incompatible(struct file *
 }
 
 /*
+ * If the page cache is marked as unsafe or invalid, then we can't rely on
+ * the PageUptodate() flag. In this case, we will need to turn off
+ * write optimisations that depend on the page contents being correct.
+ */
+static int nfs_write_pageuptodate(struct page *page, struct inode *inode)
+{
+	return PageUptodate(page) &&
+		!(NFS_I(inode)->cache_validity & (NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE|NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA));
+}
+
+/*
  * Update and possibly write a cached page of an NFS file.
  *
  * XXX: Keep an eye on generic_file_read to make sure it doesn't do bad
@@ -721,10 +732,13 @@ int nfs_updatepage(struct file *file, st
 		(long long)(page_offset(page) +offset));
 
 	/* If we're not using byte range locks, and we know the page
-	 * is entirely in cache, it may be more efficient to avoid
-	 * fragmenting write requests.
+	 * is up to date, it may be more efficient to extend the write
+	 * to cover the entire page in order to avoid fragmentation
+	 * inefficiencies.
 	 */
-	if (PageUptodate(page) && inode->i_flock == NULL && !(file->f_mode & O_SYNC)) {
+	if (nfs_write_pageuptodate(page, inode) &&
+			inode->i_flock == NULL &&
+			!(file->f_mode & O_SYNC)) {
 		count = max(count + offset, nfs_page_length(page));
 		offset = 0;
 	}

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