[PATCH 4.4 144/146] tmpfs: fix regression hang in fallocate undo

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-07-25T21:19:10Z

From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

commit 7f556567036cb7f89aabe2f0954b08566b4efb53 upstream.

The well-spotted fallocate undo fix is good in most cases, but not when
fallocate failed on the very first page. index 0 then passes lend -1
to shmem_undo_range(), and that has two bad effects: (a) that it will
undo every fallocation throughout the file, unrestricted by the current
range; but more importantly (b) it can cause the undo to hang, because
lend -1 is treated as truncation, which makes it keep on retrying until
every page has gone, but those already fully instantiated will never go
away. Big thank you to xfstests generic/269 which demonstrates this.

Fixes: b9b4bb26af01 ("tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
mm/shmem.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2153,9 +2153,11 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file
NULL);
if (error) {
/* Remove the !PageUptodate pages we added */
- shmem_undo_range(inode,
- (loff_t)start << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT,
- ((loff_t)index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) - 1, true);
+ if (index > start) {
+ shmem_undo_range(inode,
+ (loff_t)start << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT,
+ ((loff_t)index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) - 1, true);
+ }
goto undone;
}