Competing overwrite DIO in dioread_nolock mode will just overwrite
pointer to io_end in the inode. This may result in data corruption or
extent conversion happening from IO completion interrupt because we
don't properly set buffer_defer_completion() when unlocked DIO races
with locked DIO to unwritten extent.
Since unlocked DIO doesn't need io_end for anything, just avoid
allocating it and corrupting pointer from inode for locked DIO.
A cleaner fix would be to avoid these games with io_end pointer from the
inode but that requires more intrusive changes so we leave that for
later.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).
Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
only shared.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
encryption fixes from me, and Li Xi's Project Quota commits.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"Some locking and page fault bug fixes from Jan Kara, some ext4
encryption fixes from me, and Li Xi's Project Quota commits"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
fs: clean up the flags definition in uapi/linux/fs.h
ext4: add FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR/FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR interface support
ext4: add project quota support
ext4: adds project ID support
ext4 crypto: simplify interfaces to directory entry insert functions
ext4 crypto: add missing locking for keyring_key access
ext4: use pre-zeroed blocks for DAX page faults
ext4: implement allocation of pre-zeroed blocks
ext4: provide ext4_issue_zeroout()
ext4: get rid of EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_LOCK flag
ext4: document lock ordering
ext4: fix races of writeback with punch hole and zero range
ext4: fix races between buffered IO and collapse / insert range
ext4: move unlocked dio protection from ext4_alloc_file_blocks()
ext4: fix races between page faults and hole punching
Signed-off-by: Li Xi <lixi@ddn.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
kmap() in page_follow_link_light() needed to go - allowing to hold
an arbitrary number of kmaps for long is a great way to deadlocking
the system.
new helper (inode_nohighmem(inode)) needs to be used for pagecache
symlinks inodes; done for all in-tree cases. page_follow_link_light()
instrumented to yell about anything missed.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Make DAX fault path use pre-zeroed blocks to avoid races with extent
conversion and zeroing when two page faults to the same block happen.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
DAX page fault path needs to get blocks that are pre-zeroed to avoid
races when two concurrent page faults happen in the same block of a
file. Implement support for this in ext4_map_blocks().
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Create new function ext4_issue_zeroout() to zeroout contiguous (both
logically and physically) part of inode data. We will need to issue
zeroout when extent structure is not readily available and this function
will allow us to do it without making up fake extent structures.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
When dioread_nolock mode is enabled, we grab i_data_sem in
ext4_ext_direct_IO() and therefore we need to instruct _ext4_get_block()
not to grab i_data_sem again using EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_LOCK. However
holding i_data_sem over overwrite direct IO isn't needed these days. We
have exclusion against truncate / hole punching because we increase
i_dio_count under i_mutex in ext4_ext_direct_IO() so once
ext4_file_write_iter() verifies blocks are allocated & written, they are
guaranteed to stay so during the whole direct IO even after we drop
i_mutex.
So we can just remove this locking abuse and the no longer necessary
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_LOCK flag.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
When doing delayed allocation, update of on-disk inode size is postponed
until IO submission time. However hole punch or zero range fallocate
calls can end up discarding the tail page cache page and thus on-disk
inode size would never be properly updated.
Make sure the on-disk inode size is updated before truncating page
cache.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently, page faults and hole punching are completely unsynchronized.
This can result in page fault faulting in a page into a range that we
are punching after truncate_pagecache_range() has been called and thus
we can end up with a page mapped to disk blocks that will be shortly
freed. Filesystem corruption will shortly follow. Note that the same
race is avoided for truncate by checking page fault offset against
i_size but there isn't similar mechanism available for punching holes.
Fix the problem by creating new rw semaphore i_mmap_sem in inode and
grab it for writing over truncate, hole punching, and other functions
removing blocks from extent tree and for read over page faults. We
cannot easily use i_data_sem for this since that ranks below transaction
start and we need something ranking above it so that it can be held over
the whole truncate / hole punching operation. Also remove various
workarounds we had in the code to reduce race window when page fault
could have created pages with stale mapping information.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
The function currently called "__block_page_mkwrite()" used to be called
"block_page_mkwrite()" until a wrapper for this function was added by:
commit 24da4fab5a ("vfs: Create __block_page_mkwrite() helper passing
error values back")
This wrapper, the current "block_page_mkwrite()", is currently unused.
__block_page_mkwrite() is used directly by ext4, nilfs2 and xfs.
Remove the unused wrapper, rename __block_page_mkwrite() back to
block_page_mkwrite() and update the comment above block_page_mkwrite().
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- most of the rest of MM
- procfs
- lib/ updates
- printk updates
- bitops infrastructure tweaks
- checkpatch updates
- nilfs2 update
- signals
- various other misc bits: coredump, seqfile, kexec, pidns, zlib, ipc,
dma-debug, dma-mapping, ...
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (102 commits)
ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg
include/linux/zutil.h: fix usage example of zlib_adler32()
panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out
dma-debug: check nents in dma_sync_sg*
dma-mapping: tidy up dma_parms default handling
pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode
kexec: use file name as the output message prefix
fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer
seq_file: reuse string_escape_str()
fs/seq_file: use seq_* helpers in seq_hex_dump()
coredump: change zap_threads() and zap_process() to use for_each_thread()
coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
signal: remove jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()->allow_signal(SIGCONT)
signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()
signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal()
signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals()
nilfs2: fix gcc uninitialized-variable warnings in powerpc build
nilfs2: fix gcc unused-but-set-variable warnings
MAINTAINERS: nilfs2: add header file for tracing
nilfs2: add tracepoints for analyzing reading and writing metadata files
...
There are many places which use mapping_gfp_mask to restrict a more
generic gfp mask which would be used for allocations which are not
directly related to the page cache but they are performed in the same
context.
Let's introduce a helper function which makes the restriction explicit and
easier to track. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Create separate predicate functions to test/set/clear feature flags,
thereby replacing the wordy old macros. Furthermore, clean out the
places where we open-coded feature tests.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Instead of overloading EIO for CRC errors and corrupt structures,
return the same error codes that XFS returns for the same issues.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
If there is a error while copying data from userspace into the page
cache during a write(2) system call, in data=journal mode, in
ext4_journalled_write_end() were using page_zero_new_buffers() from
fs/buffer.c. Unfortunately, this sets the buffer dirty flag, which is
no good if journalling is enabled. This is a long-standing bug that
goes back for years and years in ext3, but a combination of (a)
data=journal not being very common, (b) in many case it only results
in a warning message. and (c) only very rarely causes the kernel hang,
means that we only really noticed this as a problem when commit
998ef75ddb caused this failure to happen frequently enough to cause
generic/208 to fail when run in data=journal mode.
The fix is to have our own version of this function that doesn't call
mark_dirty_buffer(), since we will end up calling
ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() on the buffer head(s) in questions very
shortly afterwards in ext4_journalled_write_end().
Thanks to Dave Hansen and Linus Torvalds for helping to identify the
root cause of the problem.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Since ext4_page_crypto() doesn't need an encryption context (at least
not any more), this allows us to simplify a number function signature
and also allows us to avoid needing to allocate a context in
ext4_block_write_begin(). It also means we no longer need a separate
ext4_decrypt_one() function.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
In cases where the file system block size is the same as the page
size, and ext4_writepage() is asked to write out a page which is
either has the unwritten bit set in the extent tree, or which does not
yet have a block assigned due to delayed allocation, we can bail out
early and, unlocking the page earlier and avoiding a round trip
through ext4_bio_write_page() with the attendant calls to
set_page_writeback() and redirty_page_for_writeback().
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
DAX wants different semantics from any currently-existing ext4 get_block
callback. Unlike ext4_get_block_write(), it needs to honour the
'create' flag, and unlike ext4_get_block(), it needs to be able to
return unwritten extents. So introduce a new ext4_get_block_dax() which
has those semantics.
We could also change ext4_get_block_write() to honour the 'create' flag,
but that might have consequences on other users that I do not currently
understand.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In order to handle the !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGES case, we need to
return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK from the inlined dax_pmd_fault(), which is
defined in linux/mm.h. Given that we don't want to include <linux/mm.h>
in <linux/fs.h>, the easiest solution is to move the DAX-related
functions to a new header, <linux/dax.h>. We could also have moved
VM_FAULT_* definitions to a new header, or a different header that isn't
quite such a boil-the-ocean header as <linux/mm.h>, but this felt like
the best option.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
features and other churn going into 4.2.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"Pretty much all bug fixes and clean ups for 4.3, after a lot of
features and other churn going into 4.2"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
Revert "ext4: remove block_device_ejected"
ext4: ratelimit the file system mounted message
ext4: silence a format string false positive
ext4: simplify some code in read_mmp_block()
ext4: don't manipulate recovery flag when freezing no-journal fs
jbd2: limit number of reserved credits
ext4 crypto: remove duplicate header file
ext4: update c/mtime on truncate up
jbd2: avoid infinite loop when destroying aborted journal
ext4, jbd2: add REQ_FUA flag when recording an error in the superblock
ext4 crypto: fix spelling typo in comment
ext4 crypto: exit cleanly if ext4_derive_key_aes() fails
ext4: reject journal options for ext2 mounts
ext4: implement cgroup writeback support
ext4: replace ext4_io_submit->io_op with ->io_wbc
ext4 crypto: check for too-short encrypted file names
ext4 crypto: use a jbd2 transaction when adding a crypto policy
jbd2: speedup jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()
Commit 3da40c7b08 ("ext4: only call ext4_truncate when size <= isize")
introduced a bug that c/mtime is not updated on truncate up.
Fix the issue by setting c/mtime explicitly in the truncate up case.
Note that ftruncate(2) is not affected, so you won't see this bug using
truncate(1) and xfs_io(1).
Signed-off-by: Zirong Lang <zorro.lang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* address corner cases for indirect blocks->extent migration
* fix reserved block accounting invalidate_page when
page_size != block_size (i.e., ppc or 1k block size file systems)
* fix deadlocks when a memcg is under heavy memory pressure
* fix fencepost error in lazytime optimization
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 bugfixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Bug fixes (all for stable kernels) for ext4:
- address corner cases for indirect blocks->extent migration
- fix reserved block accounting invalidate_page when
page_size != block_size (i.e., ppc or 1k block size file systems)
- fix deadlocks when a memcg is under heavy memory pressure
- fix fencepost error in lazytime optimization"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: replace open coded nofail allocation in ext4_free_blocks()
ext4: correctly migrate a file with a hole at the beginning
ext4: be more strict when migrating to non-extent based file
ext4: fix reservation release on invalidatepage for delalloc fs
ext4: avoid deadlocks in the writeback path by using sb_getblk_gfp
bufferhead: Add _gfp version for sb_getblk()
ext4: fix fencepost error in lazytime optimization
On delalloc enabled file system on invalidatepage operation
in ext4_da_page_release_reservation() we want to clear the delayed
buffer and remove the extent covering the delayed buffer from the extent
status tree.
However currently there is a bug where on the systems with page size >
block size we will always remove extents from the start of the page
regardless where the actual delayed buffers are positioned in the page.
This leads to the errors like this:
EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_da_release_space:1225:
ext4_da_release_space: ino 13, to_free 1 with only 0 reserved data
blocks
This however can cause data loss on writeback time if the file system is
in ENOSPC condition because we're releasing reservation for someones
else delayed buffer.
Fix this by only removing extents that corresponds to the part of the
page we want to invalidate.
This problem is reproducible by the following fio receipt (however I was
only able to reproduce it with fio-2.1 or older.
[global]
bs=8k
iodepth=1024
iodepth_batch=60
randrepeat=1
size=1m
directory=/mnt/test
numjobs=20
[job1]
ioengine=sync
bs=1k
direct=1
rw=randread
filename=file1:file2
[job2]
ioengine=libaio
rw=randwrite
direct=1
filename=file1:file2
[job3]
bs=1k
ioengine=posixaio
rw=randwrite
direct=1
filename=file1:file2
[job5]
bs=1k
ioengine=sync
rw=randread
filename=file1:file2
[job7]
ioengine=libaio
rw=randwrite
filename=file1:file2
[job8]
ioengine=posixaio
rw=randwrite
filename=file1:file2
[job10]
ioengine=mmap
rw=randwrite
bs=1k
filename=file1:file2
[job11]
ioengine=mmap
rw=randwrite
direct=1
filename=file1:file2
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Commit 8f4d855839: "ext4: fix lazytime optimization" was not a
complete fix. In the case where the inode number is a multiple of 16,
and we could still end up updating an inode with dirty timestamps
written to the wrong inode on disk. Oops.
This can be easily reproduced by using generic/005 with a file system
with metadata_csum and lazytime enabled.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
This update contains:
o A new sparse on-disk inode record format to allow small extents to
be used for inode allocation when free space is fragmented.
o DAX support. This includes minor changes to the DAX core code to
fix problems with lock ordering and bufferhead mapping abuse.
o transaction commit interface cleanup
o removal of various unnecessary XFS specific type definitions
o cleanup and optimisation of freelist preparation before allocation
o various minor cleanups
o bug fixes for
- transaction reservation leaks
- incorrect inode logging in unwritten extent conversion
- mmap lock vs freeze ordering
- remote symlink mishandling
- attribute fork removal issues.
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Merge tag 'xfs-for-linus-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs
Pul xfs updates from Dave Chinner:
"There's a couple of small API changes to the core DAX code which
required small changes to the ext2 and ext4 code bases, but otherwise
everything is within the XFS codebase.
This update contains:
- A new sparse on-disk inode record format to allow small extents to
be used for inode allocation when free space is fragmented.
- DAX support. This includes minor changes to the DAX core code to
fix problems with lock ordering and bufferhead mapping abuse.
- transaction commit interface cleanup
- removal of various unnecessary XFS specific type definitions
- cleanup and optimisation of freelist preparation before allocation
- various minor cleanups
- bug fixes for
- transaction reservation leaks
- incorrect inode logging in unwritten extent conversion
- mmap lock vs freeze ordering
- remote symlink mishandling
- attribute fork removal issues"
* tag 'xfs-for-linus-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs: (49 commits)
xfs: don't truncate attribute extents if no extents exist
xfs: clean up XFS_MIN_FREELIST macros
xfs: sanitise error handling in xfs_alloc_fix_freelist
xfs: factor out free space extent length check
xfs: xfs_alloc_fix_freelist() can use incore perag structures
xfs: remove xfs_caddr_t
xfs: use void pointers in log validation helpers
xfs: return a void pointer from xfs_buf_offset
xfs: remove inst_t
xfs: remove __psint_t and __psunsigned_t
xfs: fix remote symlinks on V5/CRC filesystems
xfs: fix xfs_log_done interface
xfs: saner xfs_trans_commit interface
xfs: remove the flags argument to xfs_trans_cancel
xfs: pass a boolean flag to xfs_trans_free_items
xfs: switch remaining xfs_trans_dup users to xfs_trans_roll
xfs: check min blks for random debug mode sparse allocations
xfs: fix sparse inodes 32-bit compile failure
xfs: add initial DAX support
xfs: add DAX IO path support
...
the ext4 encryption patches, which is a new feature added in the last
merge window. Also fix a number of long-standing xfstest failures.
(Quota writes failing due to ENOSPC, a race between truncate and
writepage in data=journalled mode that was causing generic/068 to
fail, and other corner cases.)
Also add support for FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE, and improve jbd2
performance eliminating locking when a buffer is modified more than
once during a transaction (which is very common for allocation
bitmaps, for example), in which case the state of the journalled
buffer head doesn't need to change.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"A very large number of cleanups and bug fixes --- in particular for
the ext4 encryption patches, which is a new feature added in the last
merge window. Also fix a number of long-standing xfstest failures.
(Quota writes failing due to ENOSPC, a race between truncate and
writepage in data=journalled mode that was causing generic/068 to
fail, and other corner cases.)
Also add support for FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE, and improve jbd2
performance eliminating locking when a buffer is modified more than
once during a transaction (which is very common for allocation
bitmaps, for example), in which case the state of the journalled
buffer head doesn't need to change"
[ I renamed "ext4_follow_link()" to "ext4_encrypted_follow_link()" in
the merge resolution, to make it clear that that function is _only_
used for encrypted symlinks. The function doesn't actually work for
non-encrypted symlinks at all, and they use the generic helpers
- Linus ]
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (52 commits)
ext4: set lazytime on remount if MS_LAZYTIME is set by mount
ext4: only call ext4_truncate when size <= isize
ext4: make online defrag error reporting consistent
ext4: minor cleanup of ext4_da_reserve_space()
ext4: don't retry file block mapping on bigalloc fs with non-extent file
ext4: prevent ext4_quota_write() from failing due to ENOSPC
ext4: call sync_blockdev() before invalidate_bdev() in put_super()
jbd2: speedup jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()
jbd2: get rid of open coded allocation retry loop
ext4: improve warning directory handling messages
jbd2: fix ocfs2 corrupt when updating journal superblock fails
ext4: mballoc: avoid 20-argument function call
ext4: wait for existing dio workers in ext4_alloc_file_blocks()
ext4: recalculate journal credits as inode depth changes
jbd2: use GFP_NOFS in jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()
ext4: use swap() in mext_page_double_lock()
ext4: use swap() in memswap()
ext4: fix race between truncate and __ext4_journalled_writepage()
ext4 crypto: fail the mount if blocksize != pagesize
ext4: Add support FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE for fallocate
...
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"In this pile: pathname resolution rewrite.
- recursion in link_path_walk() is gone.
- nesting limits on symlinks are gone (the only limit remaining is
that the total amount of symlinks is no more than 40, no matter how
nested).
- "fast" (inline) symlinks are handled without leaving rcuwalk mode.
- stack footprint (independent of the nesting) is below kilobyte now,
about on par with what it used to be with one level of nested
symlinks and ~2.8 times lower than it used to be in the worst case.
- struct nameidata is entirely private to fs/namei.c now (not even
opaque pointers are being passed around).
- ->follow_link() and ->put_link() calling conventions had been
changed; all in-tree filesystems converted, out-of-tree should be
able to follow reasonably easily.
For out-of-tree conversions, see Documentation/filesystems/porting
for details (and in-tree filesystems for examples of conversion).
That has sat in -next since mid-May, seems to survive all testing
without regressions and merges clean with v4.1"
* 'for-linus-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (131 commits)
turn user_{path_at,path,lpath,path_dir}() into static inlines
namei: move saved_nd pointer into struct nameidata
inline user_path_create()
inline user_path_parent()
namei: trim do_last() arguments
namei: stash dfd and name into nameidata
namei: fold path_cleanup() into terminate_walk()
namei: saner calling conventions for filename_parentat()
namei: saner calling conventions for filename_create()
namei: shift nameidata down into filename_parentat()
namei: make filename_lookup() reject ERR_PTR() passed as name
namei: shift nameidata inside filename_lookup()
namei: move putname() call into filename_lookup()
namei: pass the struct path to store the result down into path_lookupat()
namei: uninline set_root{,_rcu}()
namei: be careful with mountpoint crossings in follow_dotdot_rcu()
Documentation: remove outdated information from automount-support.txt
get rid of assorted nameidata-related debris
lustre: kill unused helper
lustre: kill unused macro (LOOKUP_CONTINUE)
...
At LSF we decided that if we truncate up from isize we shouldn't trim
fallocated blocks that were fallocated with KEEP_SIZE and are past the
new i_size. This patch fixes ext4 to do this.
[ Completely reworked patch so that i_disksize would actually get set
when truncating up. Also reworked the code for handling truncate so
that it's easier to handle. -- tytso ]
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Remove outdated comments and dead code from ext4_da_reserve_space.
Clean up its trace point, and relocate it to make it more useful.
While we're at it, fix a nearby conditional used to determine if
we have a non-bigalloc file system. It doesn't match usage elsewhere
in the code, and misleadingly suggests that an s_cluster_ratio value
of 0 would be legal.
Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
In order to prevent quota block tracking to be inaccurate when
ext4_quota_write() fails with ENOSPC, we make two changes. The quota
file can now use the reserved block (since the quota file is arguably
file system metadata), and ext4_quota_write() now uses
ext4_should_retry_alloc() to retry the block allocation after a commit
has completed and released some blocks for allocation.
This fixes failures of xfstests generic/270:
Quota error (device vdc): write_blk: dquota write failed
Quota error (device vdc): qtree_write_dquot: Error -28 occurred while creating quota
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
The commit cf108bca46: "ext4: Invert the locking order of page_lock
and transaction start" caused __ext4_journalled_writepage() to drop
the page lock before the page was written back, as part of changing
the locking order to jbd2_journal_start -> page_lock. However, this
introduced a potential race if there was a truncate racing with the
data=journalled writeback mode.
Fix this by grabbing the page lock after starting the journal handle,
and then checking to see if page had gotten truncated out from under
us.
This fixes a number of different warnings or BUG_ON's when running
xfstests generic/086 in data=journalled mode, including:
jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata: vdc-8: bad jh for block 115643: transaction (ee3fe7
c0, 164), jh->b_transaction ( (null), 0), jh->b_next_transaction ( (null), 0), jlist 0
- and -
kernel BUG at /usr/projects/linux/ext4/fs/jbd2/transaction.c:2200!
...
Call Trace:
[<c02b2ded>] ? __ext4_journalled_invalidatepage+0x117/0x117
[<c02b2de5>] __ext4_journalled_invalidatepage+0x10f/0x117
[<c02b2ded>] ? __ext4_journalled_invalidatepage+0x117/0x117
[<c027d883>] ? lock_buffer+0x36/0x36
[<c02b2dfa>] ext4_journalled_invalidatepage+0xd/0x22
[<c0229139>] do_invalidatepage+0x22/0x26
[<c0229198>] truncate_inode_page+0x5b/0x85
[<c022934b>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x156/0x38c
[<c0229592>] truncate_inode_pages+0x11/0x15
[<c022962d>] truncate_pagecache+0x55/0x71
[<c02b913b>] ext4_setattr+0x4a9/0x560
[<c01ca542>] ? current_kernel_time+0x10/0x44
[<c026c4d8>] notify_change+0x1c7/0x2be
[<c0256a00>] do_truncate+0x65/0x85
[<c0226f31>] ? file_ra_state_init+0x12/0x29
- and -
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1331 at /usr/projects/linux/ext4/fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1396
irty_metadata+0x14a/0x1ae()
...
Call Trace:
[<c01b879f>] ? console_unlock+0x3a1/0x3ce
[<c082cbb4>] dump_stack+0x48/0x60
[<c0178b65>] warn_slowpath_common+0x89/0xa0
[<c02ef2cf>] ? jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x14a/0x1ae
[<c0178bef>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x18
[<c02ef2cf>] jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x14a/0x1ae
[<c02d8615>] __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0xd4/0x19d
[<c02b2f44>] write_end_fn+0x40/0x53
[<c02b4a16>] ext4_walk_page_buffers+0x4e/0x6a
[<c02b59e7>] ext4_writepage+0x354/0x3b8
[<c02b2f04>] ? mpage_release_unused_pages+0xd4/0xd4
[<c02b1b21>] ? wait_on_buffer+0x2c/0x2c
[<c02b5a4b>] ? ext4_writepage+0x3b8/0x3b8
[<c02b5a5b>] __writepage+0x10/0x2e
[<c0225956>] write_cache_pages+0x22d/0x32c
[<c02b5a4b>] ? ext4_writepage+0x3b8/0x3b8
[<c02b6ee8>] ext4_writepages+0x102/0x607
[<c019adfe>] ? sched_clock_local+0x10/0x10e
[<c01a8a7c>] ? __lock_is_held+0x2e/0x44
[<c01a8ad5>] ? lock_is_held+0x43/0x51
[<c0226dff>] do_writepages+0x1c/0x29
[<c0276bed>] __writeback_single_inode+0xc3/0x545
[<c0277c07>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x21f/0x36d
...
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
dax_fault() currently relies on the get_block callback to attach an
io completion callback to the mapping buffer head so that it can
run unwritten extent conversion after zeroing allocated blocks.
Instead of this hack, pass the conversion callback directly into
dax_fault() similar to the get_block callback. When the filesystem
allocates unwritten extents, it will set the buffer_unwritten()
flag, and hence the dax_fault code can call the completion function
in the contexts where it is necessary without overloading the
mapping buffer head.
Note: The changes to ext4 to use this interface are suspect at best.
In fact, the way ext4 did this end_io assignment in the first place
looks suspect because it only set a completion callback when there
wasn't already some other write() call taking place on the same
inode. The ext4 end_io code looks rather intricate and fragile with
all it's reference counting and passing to different contexts for
modification via inode private pointers that aren't protected by
locks...
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We had a fencepost error in the lazytime optimization which means that
timestamp would get written to the wrong inode.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
for ext4 encryption which provide better security and performance.
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Merge tag 'for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Some miscellaneous bug fixes and some final on-disk and ABI changes
for ext4 encryption which provide better security and performance"
* tag 'for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: fix growing of tiny filesystems
ext4: move check under lock scope to close a race.
ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents
ext4 crypto: remove duplicated encryption mode definitions
ext4 crypto: do not select from EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION
ext4 crypto: add padding to filenames before encrypting
ext4 crypto: simplify and speed up filename encryption
Currently it is possible to lose whole file system block worth of data
when we hit the specific interaction with unwritten and delayed extents
in status extent tree.
The problem is that when we insert delayed extent into extent status
tree the only way to get rid of it is when we write out delayed buffer.
However there is a limitation in the extent status tree implementation
so that when inserting unwritten extent should there be even a single
delayed block the whole unwritten extent would be marked as delayed.
At this point, there is no way to get rid of the delayed extents,
because there are no delayed buffers to write out. So when a we write
into said unwritten extent we will convert it to written, but it still
remains delayed.
When we try to write into that block later ext4_da_map_blocks() will set
the buffer new and delayed and map it to invalid block which causes
the rest of the block to be zeroed loosing already written data.
For now we can fix this by simply not allowing to set delayed status on
written extent in the extent status tree. Also add WARN_ON() to make
sure that we notice if this happens in the future.
This problem can be easily reproduced by running the following xfs_io.
xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xaa 4096 2048" \
-c "falloc 0 131072" \
-c "pwrite -S 0xbb 65536 2048" \
-c "fsync" /mnt/test/fff
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xdd 67584 2048" /mnt/test/fff
This can be theoretically also reproduced by at random by running fsx,
but it's not very reliable, though on machines with bigger page size
(like ppc) this can be seen more often (especially xfstest generic/127)
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro:
"d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before
the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
direct-io: only inc/dec inode->i_dio_count for file systems
fs/9p: fix readdir()
VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations
VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations
VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations
VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations
VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations
VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: Fix up some ->d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver
VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only
VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only
do_blockdev_direct_IO() increments and decrements the inode
->i_dio_count for each IO operation. It does this to protect against
truncate of a file. Block devices don't need this sort of protection.
For a capable multiqueue setup, this atomic int is the only shared
state between applications accessing the device for O_DIRECT, and it
presents a scaling wall for that. In my testing, as much as 30% of
system time is spent incrementing and decrementing this value. A mixed
read/write workload improved from ~2.5M IOPS to ~9.6M IOPS, with
better latencies too. Before:
clat percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 33], 5.00th=[ 34], 10.00th=[ 34], 20.00th=[ 34],
| 30.00th=[ 34], 40.00th=[ 34], 50.00th=[ 35], 60.00th=[ 35],
| 70.00th=[ 35], 80.00th=[ 35], 90.00th=[ 37], 95.00th=[ 80],
| 99.00th=[ 98], 99.50th=[ 151], 99.90th=[ 155], 99.95th=[ 155],
| 99.99th=[ 165]
After:
clat percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 95], 5.00th=[ 108], 10.00th=[ 129], 20.00th=[ 149],
| 30.00th=[ 155], 40.00th=[ 161], 50.00th=[ 167], 60.00th=[ 171],
| 70.00th=[ 177], 80.00th=[ 185], 90.00th=[ 201], 95.00th=[ 270],
| 99.00th=[ 390], 99.50th=[ 398], 99.90th=[ 418], 99.95th=[ 422],
| 99.99th=[ 438]
In other setups, Robert Elliott reported seeing good performance
improvements:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/3/557
The more applications accessing the device, the worse it gets.
Add a new direct-io flags, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT, which tells
do_blockdev_direct_IO() that it need not worry about incrementing
or decrementing the inode i_dio_count for this caller.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) <elliott@hp.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull third hunk of vfs changes from Al Viro:
"This contains the ->direct_IO() changes from Omar + saner
generic_write_checks() + dealing with fcntl()/{read,write}() races
(mirroring O_APPEND/O_DIRECT into iocb->ki_flags and instead of
repeatedly looking at ->f_flags, which can be changed by fcntl(2),
check ->ki_flags - which cannot) + infrastructure bits for dhowells'
d_inode annotations + Christophs switch of /dev/loop to
vfs_iter_write()"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (30 commits)
block: loop: switch to VFS ITER_BVEC
configfs: Fix inconsistent use of file_inode() vs file->f_path.dentry->d_inode
VFS: Make pathwalk use d_is_reg() rather than S_ISREG()
VFS: Fix up debugfs to use d_is_dir() in place of S_ISDIR()
VFS: Combine inode checks with d_is_negative() and d_is_positive() in pathwalk
NFS: Don't use d_inode as a variable name
VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags
VFS: Add owner-filesystem positive/negative dentry checks
nfs: generic_write_checks() shouldn't be done on swapout...
ocfs2: use __generic_file_write_iter()
mirror O_APPEND and O_DIRECT into iocb->ki_flags
switch generic_write_checks() to iocb and iter
ocfs2: move generic_write_checks() before the alignment checks
ocfs2_file_write_iter: stop messing with ppos
udf_file_write_iter: reorder and simplify
fuse: ->direct_IO() doesn't need generic_write_checks()
ext4_file_write_iter: move generic_write_checks() up
xfs_file_aio_write_checks: switch to iocb/iov_iter
generic_write_checks(): drop isblk argument
blkdev_write_iter: expand generic_file_checks() call in there
...
The original dax patchset split the ext2/4_file_operations because of the
two NULL splice_read/splice_write in the dax case.
In the vfs if splice_read/splice_write are NULL we then call
default_splice_read/write.
What we do here is make generic_file_splice_read aware of IS_DAX() so the
original ext2/4_file_operations can be used as is.
For write it appears that iter_file_splice_write is just fine. It uses
the regular f_op->write(file,..) or new_sync_write(file, ...).
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pulls block_write_begin() into fs/ext4/inode.c because it might need
to do a low-level read of the existing data, in which case we need to
decrypt it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ildar Muslukhov <ildarm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
