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<title>dax: fix offset overflow in dax_io</title>
<updated>2016-06-27T19:18:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-23T21:54:46+00:00</published>
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This isn't functionally apparent for some reason, but
when we test io at extreme offsets at the end of the loff_t
rang, such as in fstests xfs/071, the calculation of
"max" in dax_io() can be wrong due to pos + size overflowing.

For example,

# xfs_io -c "pwrite 9223372036854771712 512" /mnt/test/file

enters dax_io with:

start 0x7ffffffffffff000
end   0x7ffffffffffff200

and the rounded up "size" variable is 0x1000.  This yields:

pos + size 0x8000000000000000 (overflows loff_t)
       end 0x7ffffffffffff200

Due to the overflow, the min() function picks the wrong
value for the "max" variable, and when we send (max - pos)
into i.e. copy_from_iter_pmem() it is also the wrong value.

This somehow(tm) gets magically absorbed without incident,
probably because iter-&gt;count is correct.  But it seems best
to fix it up properly by comparing the two values as
unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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This isn't functionally apparent for some reason, but
when we test io at extreme offsets at the end of the loff_t
rang, such as in fstests xfs/071, the calculation of
"max" in dax_io() can be wrong due to pos + size overflowing.

For example,

# xfs_io -c "pwrite 9223372036854771712 512" /mnt/test/file

enters dax_io with:

start 0x7ffffffffffff000
end   0x7ffffffffffff200

and the rounded up "size" variable is 0x1000.  This yields:

pos + size 0x8000000000000000 (overflows loff_t)
       end 0x7ffffffffffff200

Due to the overflow, the min() function picks the wrong
value for the "max" variable, and when we send (max - pos)
into i.e. copy_from_iter_pmem() it is also the wrong value.

This somehow(tm) gets magically absorbed without incident,
probably because iter-&gt;count is correct.  But it seems best
to fix it up properly by comparing the two values as
unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dax-locking-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2016-05-27T03:00:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-27T03:00:28+00:00</published>
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Pull DAX locking updates from Ross Zwisler:
 "Filesystem DAX locking for 4.7

   - We use a bit in an exceptional radix tree entry as a lock bit and
     use it similarly to how page lock is used for normal faults.  This
     fixes races between hole instantiation and read faults of the same
     index.

   - Filesystem DAX PMD faults are disabled, and will be re-enabled when
     PMD locking is implemented"

* tag 'dax-locking-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  dax: Remove i_mmap_lock protection
  dax: Use radix tree entry lock to protect cow faults
  dax: New fault locking
  dax: Allow DAX code to replace exceptional entries
  dax: Define DAX lock bit for radix tree exceptional entry
  dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN
  dax: Fix condition for filling of PMD holes
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Pull DAX locking updates from Ross Zwisler:
 "Filesystem DAX locking for 4.7

   - We use a bit in an exceptional radix tree entry as a lock bit and
     use it similarly to how page lock is used for normal faults.  This
     fixes races between hole instantiation and read faults of the same
     index.

   - Filesystem DAX PMD faults are disabled, and will be re-enabled when
     PMD locking is implemented"

* tag 'dax-locking-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  dax: Remove i_mmap_lock protection
  dax: Use radix tree entry lock to protect cow faults
  dax: New fault locking
  dax: Allow DAX code to replace exceptional entries
  dax: Define DAX lock bit for radix tree exceptional entry
  dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN
  dax: Fix condition for filling of PMD holes
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dax-misc-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2016-05-27T02:34:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-27T02:34:26+00:00</published>
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Pull misc DAX updates from Vishal Verma:
 "DAX error handling for 4.7

   - Until now, dax has been disabled if media errors were found on any
     device.  This enables the use of DAX in the presence of these
     errors by making all sector-aligned zeroing go through the driver.

   - The driver (already) has the ability to clear errors on writes that
     are sent through the block layer using 'DSMs' defined in ACPI 6.1.

  Other misc changes:

   - When mounting DAX filesystems, check to make sure the partition is
     page aligned.  This is a requirement for DAX, and previously, we
     allowed such unaligned mounts to succeed, but subsequent
     reads/writes would fail.

   - Misc/cleanup fixes from Jan that remove unused code from DAX
     related to zeroing, writeback, and some size checks"

* tag 'dax-misc-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  dax: fix a comment in dax_zero_page_range and dax_truncate_page
  dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible
  dax: export a low-level __dax_zero_page_range helper
  dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors
  dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks)
  dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error
  block: Update blkdev_dax_capable() for consistency
  xfs: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  ext2: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  ext4: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  block: Add bdev_dax_supported() for dax mount checks
  block: Add vfs_msg() interface
  dax: Remove redundant inode size checks
  dax: Remove pointless writeback from dax_do_io()
  dax: Remove zeroing from dax_io()
  dax: Remove dead zeroing code from fault handlers
  ext2: Avoid DAX zeroing to corrupt data
  ext2: Fix block zeroing in ext2_get_blocks() for DAX
  dax: Remove complete_unwritten argument
  DAX: move RADIX_DAX_ definitions to dax.c
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Pull misc DAX updates from Vishal Verma:
 "DAX error handling for 4.7

   - Until now, dax has been disabled if media errors were found on any
     device.  This enables the use of DAX in the presence of these
     errors by making all sector-aligned zeroing go through the driver.

   - The driver (already) has the ability to clear errors on writes that
     are sent through the block layer using 'DSMs' defined in ACPI 6.1.

  Other misc changes:

   - When mounting DAX filesystems, check to make sure the partition is
     page aligned.  This is a requirement for DAX, and previously, we
     allowed such unaligned mounts to succeed, but subsequent
     reads/writes would fail.

   - Misc/cleanup fixes from Jan that remove unused code from DAX
     related to zeroing, writeback, and some size checks"

* tag 'dax-misc-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  dax: fix a comment in dax_zero_page_range and dax_truncate_page
  dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible
  dax: export a low-level __dax_zero_page_range helper
  dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors
  dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks)
  dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error
  block: Update blkdev_dax_capable() for consistency
  xfs: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  ext2: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  ext4: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  block: Add bdev_dax_supported() for dax mount checks
  block: Add vfs_msg() interface
  dax: Remove redundant inode size checks
  dax: Remove pointless writeback from dax_do_io()
  dax: Remove zeroing from dax_io()
  dax: Remove dead zeroing code from fault handlers
  ext2: Avoid DAX zeroing to corrupt data
  ext2: Fix block zeroing in ext2_get_blocks() for DAX
  dax: Remove complete_unwritten argument
  DAX: move RADIX_DAX_ definitions to dax.c
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2016-05-24T19:55:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-24T19:55:26+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Fix a number of bugs, most notably a potential stale data exposure
  after a crash and a potential BUG_ON crash if a file has the data
  journalling flag enabled while it has dirty delayed allocation blocks
  that haven't been written yet.  Also fix a potential crash in the new
  project quota code and a maliciously corrupted file system.

  In addition, fix some DAX-specific bugs, including when there is a
  transient ENOSPC situation and races between writes via direct I/O and
  an mmap'ed segment that could lead to lost I/O.

  Finally the usual set of miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (23 commits)
  ext4: pre-zero allocated blocks for DAX IO
  ext4: refactor direct IO code
  ext4: fix race in transient ENOSPC detection
  ext4: handle transient ENOSPC properly for DAX
  dax: call get_blocks() with create == 1 for write faults to unwritten extents
  ext4: remove unmeetable inconsisteny check from ext4_find_extent()
  jbd2: remove excess descriptions for handle_s
  ext4: remove unnecessary bio get/put
  ext4: silence UBSAN in ext4_mb_init()
  ext4: address UBSAN warning in mb_find_order_for_block()
  ext4: fix oops on corrupted filesystem
  ext4: fix check of dqget() return value in ext4_ioctl_setproject()
  ext4: clean up error handling when orphan list is corrupted
  ext4: fix hang when processing corrupted orphaned inode list
  ext4: remove trailing \n from ext4_warning/ext4_error calls
  ext4: fix races between changing inode journal mode and ext4_writepages
  ext4: handle unwritten or delalloc buffers before enabling data journaling
  ext4: fix jbd2 handle extension in ext4_ext_truncate_extend_restart()
  ext4: do not ask jbd2 to write data for delalloc buffers
  jbd2: add support for avoiding data writes during transaction commits
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Fix a number of bugs, most notably a potential stale data exposure
  after a crash and a potential BUG_ON crash if a file has the data
  journalling flag enabled while it has dirty delayed allocation blocks
  that haven't been written yet.  Also fix a potential crash in the new
  project quota code and a maliciously corrupted file system.

  In addition, fix some DAX-specific bugs, including when there is a
  transient ENOSPC situation and races between writes via direct I/O and
  an mmap'ed segment that could lead to lost I/O.

  Finally the usual set of miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (23 commits)
  ext4: pre-zero allocated blocks for DAX IO
  ext4: refactor direct IO code
  ext4: fix race in transient ENOSPC detection
  ext4: handle transient ENOSPC properly for DAX
  dax: call get_blocks() with create == 1 for write faults to unwritten extents
  ext4: remove unmeetable inconsisteny check from ext4_find_extent()
  jbd2: remove excess descriptions for handle_s
  ext4: remove unnecessary bio get/put
  ext4: silence UBSAN in ext4_mb_init()
  ext4: address UBSAN warning in mb_find_order_for_block()
  ext4: fix oops on corrupted filesystem
  ext4: fix check of dqget() return value in ext4_ioctl_setproject()
  ext4: clean up error handling when orphan list is corrupted
  ext4: fix hang when processing corrupted orphaned inode list
  ext4: remove trailing \n from ext4_warning/ext4_error calls
  ext4: fix races between changing inode journal mode and ext4_writepages
  ext4: handle unwritten or delalloc buffers before enabling data journaling
  ext4: fix jbd2 handle extension in ext4_ext_truncate_extend_restart()
  ext4: do not ask jbd2 to write data for delalloc buffers
  jbd2: add support for avoiding data writes during transaction commits
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: move RADIX_DAX_ definitions to dax.c</title>
<updated>2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-21T00:03:51+00:00</published>
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These don't belong in radix-tree.h any more than PAGECACHE_TAG_* do.
Let's try to maintain the idea that radix-tree simply implements an
abstract data type.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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These don't belong in radix-tree.h any more than PAGECACHE_TAG_* do.
Let's try to maintain the idea that radix-tree simply implements an
abstract data type.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: Remove i_mmap_lock protection</title>
<updated>2016-05-19T21:28:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-12T16:29:20+00:00</published>
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Currently faults are protected against truncate by filesystem specific
i_mmap_sem and page lock in case of hole page. Cow faults are protected
DAX radix tree entry locking. So there's no need for i_mmap_lock in DAX
code. Remove it.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Currently faults are protected against truncate by filesystem specific
i_mmap_sem and page lock in case of hole page. Cow faults are protected
DAX radix tree entry locking. So there's no need for i_mmap_lock in DAX
code. Remove it.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: Use radix tree entry lock to protect cow faults</title>
<updated>2016-05-19T21:27:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-12T16:29:19+00:00</published>
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When doing cow faults, we cannot directly fill in PTE as we do for other
faults as we rely on generic code to do proper accounting of the cowed page.
We also have no page to lock to protect against races with truncate as
other faults have and we need the protection to extend until the moment
generic code inserts cowed page into PTE thus at that point we have no
protection of fs-specific i_mmap_sem. So far we relied on using
i_mmap_lock for the protection however that is completely special to cow
faults. To make fault locking more uniform use DAX entry lock instead.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
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When doing cow faults, we cannot directly fill in PTE as we do for other
faults as we rely on generic code to do proper accounting of the cowed page.
We also have no page to lock to protect against races with truncate as
other faults have and we need the protection to extend until the moment
generic code inserts cowed page into PTE thus at that point we have no
protection of fs-specific i_mmap_sem. So far we relied on using
i_mmap_lock for the protection however that is completely special to cow
faults. To make fault locking more uniform use DAX entry lock instead.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: New fault locking</title>
<updated>2016-05-19T21:20:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-12T16:29:18+00:00</published>
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Currently DAX page fault locking is racy.

CPU0 (write fault)		CPU1 (read fault)

__dax_fault()			__dax_fault()
  get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 0) -&gt; not mapped
				  get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 0)
				    -&gt; not mapped
  if (!buffer_mapped(&amp;bh))
    if (vmf-&gt;flags &amp; FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)
      get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 1) -&gt; allocates blocks
  if (page) -&gt; no
				  if (!buffer_mapped(&amp;bh))
				    if (vmf-&gt;flags &amp; FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) {
				    } else {
				      dax_load_hole();
				    }
  dax_insert_mapping()

And we are in a situation where we fail in dax_radix_entry() with -EIO.

Another problem with the current DAX page fault locking is that there is
no race-free way to clear dirty tag in the radix tree. We can always
end up with clean radix tree and dirty data in CPU cache.

We fix the first problem by introducing locking of exceptional radix
tree entries in DAX mappings acting very similarly to page lock and thus
synchronizing properly faults against the same mapping index. The same
lock can later be used to avoid races when clearing radix tree dirty
tag.

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Currently DAX page fault locking is racy.

CPU0 (write fault)		CPU1 (read fault)

__dax_fault()			__dax_fault()
  get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 0) -&gt; not mapped
				  get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 0)
				    -&gt; not mapped
  if (!buffer_mapped(&amp;bh))
    if (vmf-&gt;flags &amp; FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)
      get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 1) -&gt; allocates blocks
  if (page) -&gt; no
				  if (!buffer_mapped(&amp;bh))
				    if (vmf-&gt;flags &amp; FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) {
				    } else {
				      dax_load_hole();
				    }
  dax_insert_mapping()

And we are in a situation where we fail in dax_radix_entry() with -EIO.

Another problem with the current DAX page fault locking is that there is
no race-free way to clear dirty tag in the radix tree. We can always
end up with clean radix tree and dirty data in CPU cache.

We fix the first problem by introducing locking of exceptional radix
tree entries in DAX mappings acting very similarly to page lock and thus
synchronizing properly faults against the same mapping index. The same
lock can later be used to avoid races when clearing radix tree dirty
tag.

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: Define DAX lock bit for radix tree exceptional entry</title>
<updated>2016-05-19T21:14:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2016-05-12T16:29:16+00:00</published>
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We will use lowest available bit in the radix tree exceptional entry for
locking of the entry. Define it. Also clean up definitions of DAX entry
type bits in DAX exceptional entries to use defined constants instead of
hardcoding numbers and cleanup checking of these bits to not rely on how
other bits in the entry are set.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
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We will use lowest available bit in the radix tree exceptional entry for
locking of the entry. Define it. Also clean up definitions of DAX entry
type bits in DAX exceptional entries to use defined constants instead of
hardcoding numbers and cleanup checking of these bits to not rely on how
other bits in the entry are set.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<title>dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN</title>
<updated>2016-05-19T21:13:17+00:00</updated>
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<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2016-05-12T16:29:15+00:00</published>
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Currently the handling of huge pages for DAX is racy. For example the
following can happen:

CPU0 (THP write fault)			CPU1 (normal read fault)

__dax_pmd_fault()			__dax_fault()
  get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 0) -&gt; not mapped
					get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 0)
					  -&gt; not mapped
  if (!buffer_mapped(&amp;bh) &amp;&amp; write)
    get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 1) -&gt; allocates blocks
  truncate_pagecache_range(inode, lstart, lend);
					dax_load_hole();

This results in data corruption since process on CPU1 won't see changes
into the file done by CPU0.

The race can happen even if two normal faults race however with THP the
situation is even worse because the two faults don't operate on the same
entries in the radix tree and we want to use these entries for
serialization. So make THP support in DAX code depend on CONFIG_BROKEN
for now.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Currently the handling of huge pages for DAX is racy. For example the
following can happen:

CPU0 (THP write fault)			CPU1 (normal read fault)

__dax_pmd_fault()			__dax_fault()
  get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 0) -&gt; not mapped
					get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 0)
					  -&gt; not mapped
  if (!buffer_mapped(&amp;bh) &amp;&amp; write)
    get_block(inode, block, &amp;bh, 1) -&gt; allocates blocks
  truncate_pagecache_range(inode, lstart, lend);
					dax_load_hole();

This results in data corruption since process on CPU1 won't see changes
into the file done by CPU0.

The race can happen even if two normal faults race however with THP the
situation is even worse because the two faults don't operate on the same
entries in the radix tree and we want to use these entries for
serialization. So make THP support in DAX code depend on CONFIG_BROKEN
for now.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
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