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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2017-01-27 14:35:38 -0500
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2017-06-05 21:17:00 +0100
commit324b4fb18d8b08633fa109e9a9d4aba44af2ddb8 (patch)
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parentdabb07246427d46ece1a68a02e0e67fbb46e53fa (diff)
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ext4: fix data corruption in data=journal mode
commit 3b136499e906460919f0d21a49db1aaccf0ae963 upstream. ext4_journalled_write_end() did not propely handle all the cases when generic_perform_write() did not copy all the data into the target page and could mark buffers with uninitialized contents as uptodate and dirty leading to possible data corruption (which would be quickly fixed by generic_perform_write() retrying the write but still). Fix the problem by carefully handling the case when the page that is written to is not uptodate. Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c23
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 79a04ca1b7ba..142cf48faf3d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1171,7 +1171,9 @@ errout:
* set the buffer to be dirty, since in data=journalled mode we need
* to call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() instead.
*/
-static void zero_new_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to)
+static void ext4_journalled_zero_new_buffers(handle_t *handle,
+ struct page *page,
+ unsigned from, unsigned to)
{
unsigned int block_start = 0, block_end;
struct buffer_head *head, *bh;
@@ -1188,7 +1190,7 @@ static void zero_new_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to)
size = min(to, block_end) - start;
zero_user(page, start, size);
- set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
+ write_end_fn(handle, bh);
}
clear_buffer_new(bh);
}
@@ -1219,15 +1221,16 @@ static int ext4_journalled_write_end(struct file *file,
if (ext4_has_inline_data(inode))
copied = ext4_write_inline_data_end(inode, pos, len,
copied, page);
- else {
- if (copied < len) {
- if (!PageUptodate(page))
- copied = 0;
- zero_new_buffers(page, from+copied, to);
- }
-
+ else if (unlikely(copied < len) && !PageUptodate(page)) {
+ copied = 0;
+ ext4_journalled_zero_new_buffers(handle, page, from, to);
+ } else {
+ if (unlikely(copied < len))
+ ext4_journalled_zero_new_buffers(handle, page,
+ from + copied, to);
ret = ext4_walk_page_buffers(handle, page_buffers(page), from,
- to, &partial, write_end_fn);
+ from + copied, &partial,
+ write_end_fn);
if (!partial)
SetPageUptodate(page);
}