From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 4.6 198/203] tmpfs: fix regression hang in fallocate undo Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:56:53 -0700 Message-Id: <20160725203437.480705765@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160725203429.221747288@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160725203429.221747288@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Hugh Dickins 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/shmem.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2236,9 +2236,11 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file NULL); if (error) { /* Remove the !PageUptodate pages we added */ - shmem_undo_range(inode, - (loff_t)start << PAGE_SHIFT, - ((loff_t)index << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1, true); + if (index > start) { + shmem_undo_range(inode, + (loff_t)start << PAGE_SHIFT, + ((loff_t)index << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1, true); + } goto undone; }