ext4: fix bh->b_state corruption
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Fri, 19 Feb 2016 05:18:25 +0000 (00:18 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:07:08 +0000 (15:07 -0800)
commit7c3d1424dd42356a00e83b06c0a39629c4a7e5e3
tree9c26cb3bb551093c5c87a2865cf0b4b3f5c313fc
parent1c2efb14a21bfbd445b9bb6204ac4b33adcab785
ext4: fix bh->b_state corruption

commit ed8ad83808f009ade97ebbf6519bc3a97fefbc0c upstream.

ext4 can update bh->b_state non-atomically in _ext4_get_block() and
ext4_da_get_block_prep(). Usually this is fine since bh is just a
temporary storage for mapping information on stack but in some cases it
can be fully living bh attached to a page. In such case non-atomic
update of bh->b_state can race with an atomic update which then gets
lost. Usually when we are mapping bh and thus updating bh->b_state
non-atomically, nobody else touches the bh and so things work out fine
but there is one case to especially worry about: ext4_finish_bio() uses
BH_Uptodate_Lock on the first bh in the page to synchronize handling of
PageWriteback state. So when blocksize < pagesize, we can be atomically
modifying bh->b_state of a buffer that actually isn't under IO and thus
can race e.g. with delalloc trying to map that buffer. The result is
that we can mistakenly set / clear BH_Uptodate_Lock bit resulting in the
corruption of PageWriteback state or missed unlock of BH_Uptodate_Lock.

Fix the problem by always updating bh->b_state bits atomically.

Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
[NB: Backported to 4.4.2]
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/inode.c