[PATCH] Fix unmapped buffers in transaction's lists

From: Jan Kara
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 09:33:27 EST


Hi,

attached patch fixes the problem (BUG 4964) with unmapped buffers in
transaction's t_sync_data list. The problem is we need to call
filesystem's own invalidatepage() from block_write_full_page().
Please apply - the patch is against 2.6.13-mm1 so it should apply fine
against any recent kernel (both -mm and Linus's).

Honza

block_write_full_page() must call filesystem's invalidatepage().
Otherwise following nasty race can happen:

proc 1 proc 2
------ ------
- write some new data to 'offset'
=> bh gets to the transactions data list
- starts truncate
=> i_size set to new size
- mpage_writepages()
- ext3_ordered_writepage() to 'offset'
- block_write_full_page()
- page->index > end_index+1
- block_invalidatepage()
- discard_buffer()
- clear_buffer_mapped()

- commit triggers and finds unmapped buffer - BOOM!

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

diff -rupX /home/jack/.kerndiffexclude linux-2.6.13-mm1/fs/buffer.c linux-2.6.13-mm1-1-invalidatepage/fs/buffer.c
--- linux-2.6.13-mm1/fs/buffer.c 2005-09-11 22:49:06.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-mm1-1-invalidatepage/fs/buffer.c 2005-09-16 22:06:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -1637,6 +1637,15 @@ out:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_invalidatepage);

+int do_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset)
+{
+ int (*invalidatepage)(struct page *, unsigned long);
+ invalidatepage = page->mapping->a_ops->invalidatepage;
+ if (invalidatepage == NULL)
+ invalidatepage = block_invalidatepage;
+ return (*invalidatepage)(page, offset);
+}
+
/*
* We attach and possibly dirty the buffers atomically wrt
* __set_page_dirty_buffers() via private_lock. try_to_free_buffers
@@ -2696,7 +2705,7 @@ int block_write_full_page(struct page *p
* they may have been added in ext3_writepage(). Make them
* freeable here, so the page does not leak.
*/
- block_invalidatepage(page, 0);
+ do_invalidatepage(page, 0);
unlock_page(page);
return 0; /* don't care */
}
diff -rupX /home/jack/.kerndiffexclude linux-2.6.13-mm1/include/linux/buffer_head.h linux-2.6.13-mm1-1-invalidatepage/include/linux/buffer_head.h
--- linux-2.6.13-mm1/include/linux/buffer_head.h 2005-09-11 22:42:08.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-mm1-1-invalidatepage/include/linux/buffer_head.h 2005-09-16 22:01:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ extern int buffer_heads_over_limit;
*/
int try_to_release_page(struct page * page, int gfp_mask);
int block_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset);
+int do_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset);
int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
struct writeback_control *wbc);
int block_read_full_page(struct page*, get_block_t*);
diff -rupX /home/jack/.kerndiffexclude linux-2.6.13-mm1/mm/truncate.c linux-2.6.13-mm1-1-invalidatepage/mm/truncate.c
--- linux-2.6.13-mm1/mm/truncate.c 2005-09-11 22:49:25.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-mm1-1-invalidatepage/mm/truncate.c 2005-09-16 22:06:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -13,18 +13,9 @@
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/pagevec.h>
#include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* grr. try_to_release_page,
- block_invalidatepage */
+ do_invalidatepage */


-static int do_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset)
-{
- int (*invalidatepage)(struct page *, unsigned long);
- invalidatepage = page->mapping->a_ops->invalidatepage;
- if (invalidatepage == NULL)
- invalidatepage = block_invalidatepage;
- return (*invalidatepage)(page, offset);
-}
-
static inline void truncate_partial_page(struct page *page, unsigned partial)
{
memclear_highpage_flush(page, partial, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-partial);