| Message ID | 1343376074-28034-8-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com (mailing list archive) |
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Lukas Czerner wrote: > Currently the allocation might happen in the punched range after the > truncation and before the releasing the space of the range. This would > lead to blocks being unallocated under the mapped buffer heads resulting > in nasty bugs. > > With this commit we take i_mutex before going to do anything in the > ext4_ext_punch_hole() preventing any write to happen while the hole > punching is in progress. This will also allow us to ditch the writeout > of dirty pages withing the range. > > This commit was based on code provided by Zheng Liu, thanks! I'm glad you have found that i_mutex really is needed here: it had worried me that it was not taken, but I could only raise a concern, didn't really know one way or the other. > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> > --- > fs/ext4/extents.c | 26 ++++++++++---------------- > 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c > index 91341ec..2d6a216 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c > @@ -4755,9 +4755,11 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length) > loff_t first_page_offset, last_page_offset; > int credits, err = 0; > > + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); > + > /* No need to punch hole beyond i_size */ > if (offset >= inode->i_size) > - return 0; > + goto out1; Note that this is wrong, but there is no reason why it should be you to fix it in this patchset. Blocks may have been fallocated beyond i_size, and they should be removed when a hole is punched there. It's on the ext4 TODO list to be fixed, so don't worry about it: unless your changes happen to make it trivial to fix at the same time. > > /* > * If the hole extends beyond i_size, set the hole > @@ -4775,18 +4777,6 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length) > first_page_offset = first_page << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; > last_page_offset = last_page << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; > > - /* > - * Write out all dirty pages to avoid race conditions > - * Then release them. > - */ > - if (mapping->nrpages && mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)) { > - err = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, > - offset, offset + length - 1); > - > - if (err) > - return err; > - } > - It's not clear to me why that's now safe to remove: a little more comment in the commit would be good; but so long as it's clear to ext4 developers, don't try to make it clear to me - that would take far too long! Hugh > /* Now release the pages */ > if (last_page_offset > first_page_offset) { > truncate_pagecache_range(inode, first_page_offset, > @@ -4798,12 +4788,14 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length) > > credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode); > handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, credits); > - if (IS_ERR(handle)) > - return PTR_ERR(handle); > + if (IS_ERR(handle)) { > + err = PTR_ERR(handle); > + goto out1; > + } > > err = ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode); > if (err) > - goto out; > + goto out1; > > /* > * Now we need to zero out the non-page-aligned data in the > @@ -4893,6 +4885,8 @@ out: > inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode); > ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); > ext4_journal_stop(handle); > +out1: > + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); > return err; > } > int ext4_fiemap(struct inode *inode, struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo, > -- > 1.7.7.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index 91341ec..2d6a216 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -4755,9 +4755,11 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length) loff_t first_page_offset, last_page_offset; int credits, err = 0; + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); + /* No need to punch hole beyond i_size */ if (offset >= inode->i_size) - return 0; + goto out1; /* * If the hole extends beyond i_size, set the hole @@ -4775,18 +4777,6 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length) first_page_offset = first_page << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; last_page_offset = last_page << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; - /* - * Write out all dirty pages to avoid race conditions - * Then release them. - */ - if (mapping->nrpages && mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)) { - err = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, - offset, offset + length - 1); - - if (err) - return err; - } - /* Now release the pages */ if (last_page_offset > first_page_offset) { truncate_pagecache_range(inode, first_page_offset, @@ -4798,12 +4788,14 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length) credits = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode); handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, credits); - if (IS_ERR(handle)) - return PTR_ERR(handle); + if (IS_ERR(handle)) { + err = PTR_ERR(handle); + goto out1; + } err = ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode); if (err) - goto out; + goto out1; /* * Now we need to zero out the non-page-aligned data in the @@ -4893,6 +4885,8 @@ out: inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode); ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); ext4_journal_stop(handle); +out1: + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); return err; } int ext4_fiemap(struct inode *inode, struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo,
Currently the allocation might happen in the punched range after the truncation and before the releasing the space of the range. This would lead to blocks being unallocated under the mapped buffer heads resulting in nasty bugs. With this commit we take i_mutex before going to do anything in the ext4_ext_punch_hole() preventing any write to happen while the hole punching is in progress. This will also allow us to ditch the writeout of dirty pages withing the range. This commit was based on code provided by Zheng Liu, thanks! Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 26 ++++++++++---------------- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)