Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.6 198/203] tmpfs: fix regression hang in fallocate undo | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:56:53 -0700 |
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4.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
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 <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- 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; }
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