Patch "dax: fix PMD data corruption when fault races with write" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    dax: fix PMD data corruption when fault races with write

to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     dax-fix-pmd-data-corruption-when-fault-races-with-write.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 876f29460cbd4086b43475890c1bf2488fa11d40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 15:47:00 -0700
Subject: dax: fix PMD data corruption when fault races with write

From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>

commit 876f29460cbd4086b43475890c1bf2488fa11d40 upstream.

This is based on a patch from Jan Kara that fixed the equivalent race in
the DAX PTE fault path.

Currently DAX PMD read fault can race with write(2) in the following
way:

CPU1 - write(2)                 CPU2 - read fault
                                dax_iomap_pmd_fault()
                                  ->iomap_begin() - sees hole

dax_iomap_rw()
  iomap_apply()
    ->iomap_begin - allocates blocks
    dax_iomap_actor()
      invalidate_inode_pages2_range()
        - there's nothing to invalidate

                                  grab_mapping_entry()
				  - we add huge zero page to the radix tree
				    and map it to page tables

The result is that hole page is mapped into page tables (and thus zeros
are seen in mmap) while file has data written in that place.

Fix the problem by locking exception entry before mapping blocks for the
fault.  That way we are sure invalidate_inode_pages2_range() call for
racing write will either block on entry lock waiting for the fault to
finish (and unmap stale page tables after that) or read fault will see
already allocated blocks by write(2).

Fixes: 9f141d6ef6258 ("dax: Call ->iomap_begin without entry lock during dax fault")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170510172700.18991-1-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/dax.c |   28 ++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -1353,6 +1353,16 @@ static int dax_iomap_pmd_fault(struct vm
 		goto fallback;
 
 	/*
+	 * grab_mapping_entry() will make sure we get a 2M empty entry, a DAX
+	 * PMD or a HZP entry.  If it can't (because a 4k page is already in
+	 * the tree, for instance), it will return -EEXIST and we just fall
+	 * back to 4k entries.
+	 */
+	entry = grab_mapping_entry(mapping, pgoff, RADIX_DAX_PMD);
+	if (IS_ERR(entry))
+		goto fallback;
+
+	/*
 	 * Note that we don't use iomap_apply here.  We aren't doing I/O, only
 	 * setting up a mapping, so really we're using iomap_begin() as a way
 	 * to look up our filesystem block.
@@ -1360,21 +1370,11 @@ static int dax_iomap_pmd_fault(struct vm
 	pos = (loff_t)pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
 	error = ops->iomap_begin(inode, pos, PMD_SIZE, iomap_flags, &iomap);
 	if (error)
-		goto fallback;
+		goto unlock_entry;
 
 	if (iomap.offset + iomap.length < pos + PMD_SIZE)
 		goto finish_iomap;
 
-	/*
-	 * grab_mapping_entry() will make sure we get a 2M empty entry, a DAX
-	 * PMD or a HZP entry.  If it can't (because a 4k page is already in
-	 * the tree, for instance), it will return -EEXIST and we just fall
-	 * back to 4k entries.
-	 */
-	entry = grab_mapping_entry(mapping, pgoff, RADIX_DAX_PMD);
-	if (IS_ERR(entry))
-		goto finish_iomap;
-
 	switch (iomap.type) {
 	case IOMAP_MAPPED:
 		result = dax_pmd_insert_mapping(vmf, &iomap, pos, &entry);
@@ -1382,7 +1382,7 @@ static int dax_iomap_pmd_fault(struct vm
 	case IOMAP_UNWRITTEN:
 	case IOMAP_HOLE:
 		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(write))
-			goto unlock_entry;
+			break;
 		result = dax_pmd_load_hole(vmf, &iomap, &entry);
 		break;
 	default:
@@ -1390,8 +1390,6 @@ static int dax_iomap_pmd_fault(struct vm
 		break;
 	}
 
- unlock_entry:
-	put_locked_mapping_entry(mapping, pgoff, entry);
  finish_iomap:
 	if (ops->iomap_end) {
 		int copied = PMD_SIZE;
@@ -1407,6 +1405,8 @@ static int dax_iomap_pmd_fault(struct vm
 		ops->iomap_end(inode, pos, PMD_SIZE, copied, iomap_flags,
 				&iomap);
 	}
+ unlock_entry:
+	put_locked_mapping_entry(mapping, pgoff, entry);
  fallback:
 	if (result == VM_FAULT_FALLBACK) {
 		split_huge_pmd(vma, vmf->pmd, vmf->address);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.11/fs-block_dev-always-invalidate-cleancache-in-invalidate_bdev.patch
queue-4.11/ext4-return-to-starting-transaction-in-ext4_dax_huge_fault.patch
queue-4.11/dax-prevent-invalidation-of-mapped-dax-entries.patch
queue-4.11/dax-fix-pmd-data-corruption-when-fault-races-with-write.patch
queue-4.11/fs-fix-data-invalidation-in-the-cleancache-during-direct-io.patch
queue-4.11/mm-fix-data-corruption-due-to-stale-mmap-reads.patch