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<title>ext4: add inode table check in __ext4_get_inode_loc to aovid possible infinite loop</title>
<updated>2023-01-07T11:07:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baokun Li</name>
<email>libaokun1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-17T13:27:01+00:00</published>
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commit eee22187b53611e173161e38f61de1c7ecbeb876 upstream.

In do_writepages, if the value returned by ext4_writepages is "-ENOMEM"
and "wbc-&gt;sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL", retry until the condition is not met.

In __ext4_get_inode_loc, if the bh returned by sb_getblk is NULL,
the function returns -ENOMEM.

In __getblk_slow, if the return value of grow_buffers is less than 0,
the function returns NULL.

When the three processes are connected in series like the following stack,
an infinite loop may occur:

do_writepages					&lt;--- keep retrying
 ext4_writepages
  mpage_map_and_submit_extent
   mpage_map_one_extent
    ext4_map_blocks
     ext4_ext_map_blocks
      ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents
       ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized
        ext4_split_extent
         ext4_split_extent_at
          __ext4_ext_dirty
           __ext4_mark_inode_dirty
            ext4_reserve_inode_write
             ext4_get_inode_loc
              __ext4_get_inode_loc		&lt;--- return -ENOMEM
               sb_getblk
                __getblk_gfp
                 __getblk_slow			&lt;--- return NULL
                  grow_buffers
                   grow_dev_page		&lt;--- return -ENXIO
                    ret = (block &lt; end_block) ? 1 : -ENXIO;

In this issue, bg_inode_table_hi is overwritten as an incorrect value.
As a result, `block &lt; end_block` cannot be met in grow_dev_page.
Therefore, __ext4_get_inode_loc always returns '-ENOMEM' and do_writepages
keeps retrying. As a result, the writeback process is in the D state due
to an infinite loop.

Add a check on inode table block in the __ext4_get_inode_loc function by
referring to ext4_read_inode_bitmap to avoid this infinite loop.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li &lt;libaokun1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220817132701.3015912-3-libaokun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit eee22187b53611e173161e38f61de1c7ecbeb876 upstream.

In do_writepages, if the value returned by ext4_writepages is "-ENOMEM"
and "wbc-&gt;sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL", retry until the condition is not met.

In __ext4_get_inode_loc, if the bh returned by sb_getblk is NULL,
the function returns -ENOMEM.

In __getblk_slow, if the return value of grow_buffers is less than 0,
the function returns NULL.

When the three processes are connected in series like the following stack,
an infinite loop may occur:

do_writepages					&lt;--- keep retrying
 ext4_writepages
  mpage_map_and_submit_extent
   mpage_map_one_extent
    ext4_map_blocks
     ext4_ext_map_blocks
      ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents
       ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized
        ext4_split_extent
         ext4_split_extent_at
          __ext4_ext_dirty
           __ext4_mark_inode_dirty
            ext4_reserve_inode_write
             ext4_get_inode_loc
              __ext4_get_inode_loc		&lt;--- return -ENOMEM
               sb_getblk
                __getblk_gfp
                 __getblk_slow			&lt;--- return NULL
                  grow_buffers
                   grow_dev_page		&lt;--- return -ENXIO
                    ret = (block &lt; end_block) ? 1 : -ENXIO;

In this issue, bg_inode_table_hi is overwritten as an incorrect value.
As a result, `block &lt; end_block` cannot be met in grow_dev_page.
Therefore, __ext4_get_inode_loc always returns '-ENOMEM' and do_writepages
keeps retrying. As a result, the writeback process is in the D state due
to an infinite loop.

Add a check on inode table block in the __ext4_get_inode_loc function by
referring to ext4_read_inode_bitmap to avoid this infinite loop.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li &lt;libaokun1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220817132701.3015912-3-libaokun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: place buffer head allocation before handle start</title>
<updated>2022-10-26T11:15:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jinke Han</name>
<email>hanjinke.666@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-03T01:24:29+00:00</published>
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commit d1052d236eddf6aa851434db1897b942e8db9921 upstream.

In our product environment, we encounter some jbd hung waiting handles to
stop while several writters were doing memory reclaim for buffer head
allocation in delay alloc write path. Ext4 do buffer head allocation with
holding transaction handle which may be blocked too long if the reclaim
works not so smooth. According to our bcc trace, the reclaim time in
buffer head allocation can reach 258s and the jbd transaction commit also
take almost the same time meanwhile. Except for these extreme cases,
we often see several seconds delays for cgroup memory reclaim on our
servers. This is more likely to happen considering docker environment.

One thing to note, the allocation of buffer heads is as often as page
allocation or more often when blocksize less than page size. Just like
page cache allocation, we should also place the buffer head allocation
before startting the handle.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jinke Han &lt;hanjinke.666@bytedance.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220903012429.22555-1-hanjinke.666@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit d1052d236eddf6aa851434db1897b942e8db9921 upstream.

In our product environment, we encounter some jbd hung waiting handles to
stop while several writters were doing memory reclaim for buffer head
allocation in delay alloc write path. Ext4 do buffer head allocation with
holding transaction handle which may be blocked too long if the reclaim
works not so smooth. According to our bcc trace, the reclaim time in
buffer head allocation can reach 258s and the jbd transaction commit also
take almost the same time meanwhile. Except for these extreme cases,
we often see several seconds delays for cgroup memory reclaim on our
servers. This is more likely to happen considering docker environment.

One thing to note, the allocation of buffer heads is as often as page
allocation or more often when blocksize less than page size. Just like
page cache allocation, we should also place the buffer head allocation
before startting the handle.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jinke Han &lt;hanjinke.666@bytedance.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220903012429.22555-1-hanjinke.666@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix extent status tree race in writeback error recovery path</title>
<updated>2022-08-25T09:09:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Whitney</name>
<email>enwlinux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-15T16:05:30+00:00</published>
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commit 7f0d8e1d607c1a4fa9a27362a108921d82230874 upstream.

A race can occur in the unlikely event ext4 is unable to allocate a
physical cluster for a delayed allocation in a bigalloc file system
during writeback.  Failure to allocate a cluster forces error recovery
that includes a call to mpage_release_unused_pages().  That function
removes any corresponding delayed allocated blocks from the extent
status tree.  If a new delayed write is in progress on the same cluster
simultaneously, resulting in the addition of an new extent containing
one or more blocks in that cluster to the extent status tree, delayed
block accounting can be thrown off if that delayed write then encounters
a similar cluster allocation failure during future writeback.

Write lock the i_data_sem in mpage_release_unused_pages() to fix this
problem.  Ext4's block/cluster accounting code for bigalloc relies on
i_data_sem for mutual exclusion, as is found in the delayed write path,
and the locking in mpage_release_unused_pages() is missing.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Ye Bin &lt;yebin10@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615160530.1928801-1-enwlinux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 7f0d8e1d607c1a4fa9a27362a108921d82230874 upstream.

A race can occur in the unlikely event ext4 is unable to allocate a
physical cluster for a delayed allocation in a bigalloc file system
during writeback.  Failure to allocate a cluster forces error recovery
that includes a call to mpage_release_unused_pages().  That function
removes any corresponding delayed allocated blocks from the extent
status tree.  If a new delayed write is in progress on the same cluster
simultaneously, resulting in the addition of an new extent containing
one or more blocks in that cluster to the extent status tree, delayed
block accounting can be thrown off if that delayed write then encounters
a similar cluster allocation failure during future writeback.

Write lock the i_data_sem in mpage_release_unused_pages() to fix this
problem.  Ext4's block/cluster accounting code for bigalloc relies on
i_data_sem for mutual exclusion, as is found in the delayed write path,
and the locking in mpage_release_unused_pages() is missing.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Ye Bin &lt;yebin10@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615160530.1928801-1-enwlinux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: limit length to bitmap_maxbytes - blocksize in punch_hole</title>
<updated>2022-04-27T11:14:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tadeusz Struk</name>
<email>tadeusz.struk@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-31T20:05:15+00:00</published>
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commit 2da376228a2427501feb9d15815a45dbdbdd753e upstream.

Syzbot found an issue [1] in ext4_fallocate().
The C reproducer [2] calls fallocate(), passing size 0xffeffeff000ul,
and offset 0x1000000ul, which, when added together exceed the
bitmap_maxbytes for the inode. This triggers a BUG in
ext4_ind_remove_space(). According to the comments in this function
the 'end' parameter needs to be one block after the last block to be
removed. In the case when the BUG is triggered it points to the last
block. Modify the ext4_punch_hole() function and add constraint that
caps the length to satisfy the one before laster block requirement.

LINK: [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=b80bd9cf348aac724a4f4dff251800106d721331
LINK: [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=ReproC&amp;x=14ba0238700000

Fixes: a4bb6b64e39a ("ext4: enable "punch hole" functionality")
Reported-by: syzbot+7a806094edd5d07ba029@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk &lt;tadeusz.struk@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220331200515.153214-1-tadeusz.struk@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2da376228a2427501feb9d15815a45dbdbdd753e upstream.

Syzbot found an issue [1] in ext4_fallocate().
The C reproducer [2] calls fallocate(), passing size 0xffeffeff000ul,
and offset 0x1000000ul, which, when added together exceed the
bitmap_maxbytes for the inode. This triggers a BUG in
ext4_ind_remove_space(). According to the comments in this function
the 'end' parameter needs to be one block after the last block to be
removed. In the case when the BUG is triggered it points to the last
block. Modify the ext4_punch_hole() function and add constraint that
caps the length to satisfy the one before laster block requirement.

LINK: [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=b80bd9cf348aac724a4f4dff251800106d721331
LINK: [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=ReproC&amp;x=14ba0238700000

Fixes: a4bb6b64e39a ("ext4: enable "punch hole" functionality")
Reported-by: syzbot+7a806094edd5d07ba029@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk &lt;tadeusz.struk@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220331200515.153214-1-tadeusz.struk@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: don't BUG if someone dirty pages without asking ext4 first</title>
<updated>2022-04-20T07:06:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-03T14:38:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit cc5095747edfb054ca2068d01af20be3fcc3634f ]

[un]pin_user_pages_remote is dirtying pages without properly warning
the file system in advance.  A related race was noted by Jan Kara in
2018[1]; however, more recently instead of it being a very hard-to-hit
race, it could be reliably triggered by process_vm_writev(2) which was
discovered by Syzbot[2].

This is technically a bug in mm/gup.c, but arguably ext4 is fragile in
that if some other kernel subsystem dirty pages without properly
notifying the file system using page_mkwrite(), ext4 will BUG, while
other file systems will not BUG (although data will still be lost).

So instead of crashing with a BUG, issue a warning (since there may be
potential data loss) and just mark the page as clean to avoid
unprivileged denial of service attacks until the problem can be
properly fixed.  More discussion and background can be found in the
thread starting at [2].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@quack2.suse.cz
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yg0m6IjcNmfaSokM@google.com

Reported-by: syzbot+d59332e2db681cf18f0318a06e994ebbb529a8db@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Lee Jones &lt;lee.jones@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YiDS9wVfq4mM2jGK@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit cc5095747edfb054ca2068d01af20be3fcc3634f ]

[un]pin_user_pages_remote is dirtying pages without properly warning
the file system in advance.  A related race was noted by Jan Kara in
2018[1]; however, more recently instead of it being a very hard-to-hit
race, it could be reliably triggered by process_vm_writev(2) which was
discovered by Syzbot[2].

This is technically a bug in mm/gup.c, but arguably ext4 is fragile in
that if some other kernel subsystem dirty pages without properly
notifying the file system using page_mkwrite(), ext4 will BUG, while
other file systems will not BUG (although data will still be lost).

So instead of crashing with a BUG, issue a warning (since there may be
potential data loss) and just mark the page as clean to avoid
unprivileged denial of service attacks until the problem can be
properly fixed.  More discussion and background can be found in the
thread starting at [2].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@quack2.suse.cz
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yg0m6IjcNmfaSokM@google.com

Reported-by: syzbot+d59332e2db681cf18f0318a06e994ebbb529a8db@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Lee Jones &lt;lee.jones@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YiDS9wVfq4mM2jGK@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix bh ref count on error paths</title>
<updated>2021-04-07T10:05:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhaolong Zhang</name>
<email>zhangzl2013@126.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-02T09:42:31+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c915fb80eaa6194fa9bd0a4487705cd5b0dda2f1 ]

__ext4_journalled_writepage should drop bhs' ref count on error paths

Signed-off-by: Zhaolong Zhang &lt;zhangzl2013@126.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1614678151-70481-1-git-send-email-zhangzl2013@126.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c915fb80eaa6194fa9bd0a4487705cd5b0dda2f1 ]

__ext4_journalled_writepage should drop bhs' ref count on error paths

Signed-off-by: Zhaolong Zhang &lt;zhangzl2013@126.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1614678151-70481-1-git-send-email-zhangzl2013@126.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix potential error in ext4_do_update_inode</title>
<updated>2021-03-24T09:59:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shijie Luo</name>
<email>luoshijie1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-12T06:50:51+00:00</published>
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commit 7d8bd3c76da1d94b85e6c9b7007e20e980bfcfe6 upstream.

If set_large_file = 1 and errors occur in ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(),
the error code will be overridden, go to out_brelse to avoid this
situation.

Signed-off-by: Shijie Luo &lt;luoshijie1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210312065051.36314-1-luoshijie1@huawei.com
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 7d8bd3c76da1d94b85e6c9b7007e20e980bfcfe6 upstream.

If set_large_file = 1 and errors occur in ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(),
the error code will be overridden, go to out_brelse to avoid this
situation.

Signed-off-by: Shijie Luo &lt;luoshijie1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210312065051.36314-1-luoshijie1@huawei.com
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: check journal inode extents more carefully</title>
<updated>2021-03-24T09:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-17T16:44:14+00:00</published>
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commit ce9f24cccdc019229b70a5c15e2b09ad9c0ab5d1 upstream.

Currently, system zones just track ranges of block, that are "important"
fs metadata (bitmaps, group descriptors, journal blocks, etc.). This
however complicates how extent tree (or indirect blocks) can be checked
for inodes that actually track such metadata - currently the journal
inode but arguably we should be treating quota files or resize inode
similarly. We cannot run __ext4_ext_check() on such metadata inodes when
loading their extents as that would immediately trigger the validity
checks and so we just hack around that and special-case the journal
inode. This however leads to a situation that a journal inode which has
extent tree of depth at least one can have invalid extent tree that gets
unnoticed until ext4_cache_extents() crashes.

To overcome this limitation, track inode number each system zone belongs
to (0 is used for zones not belonging to any inode). We can then verify
inode number matches the expected one when verifying extent tree and
thus avoid the false errors. With this there's no need to to
special-case journal inode during extent tree checking anymore so remove
it.

Fixes: 0a944e8a6c66 ("ext4: don't perform block validity checks on the journal inode")
Reported-by: Wolfgang Frisch &lt;wolfgang.frisch@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200728130437.7804-4-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ce9f24cccdc019229b70a5c15e2b09ad9c0ab5d1 upstream.

Currently, system zones just track ranges of block, that are "important"
fs metadata (bitmaps, group descriptors, journal blocks, etc.). This
however complicates how extent tree (or indirect blocks) can be checked
for inodes that actually track such metadata - currently the journal
inode but arguably we should be treating quota files or resize inode
similarly. We cannot run __ext4_ext_check() on such metadata inodes when
loading their extents as that would immediately trigger the validity
checks and so we just hack around that and special-case the journal
inode. This however leads to a situation that a journal inode which has
extent tree of depth at least one can have invalid extent tree that gets
unnoticed until ext4_cache_extents() crashes.

To overcome this limitation, track inode number each system zone belongs
to (0 is used for zones not belonging to any inode). We can then verify
inode number matches the expected one when verifying extent tree and
thus avoid the false errors. With this there's no need to to
special-case journal inode during extent tree checking anymore so remove
it.

Fixes: 0a944e8a6c66 ("ext4: don't perform block validity checks on the journal inode")
Reported-by: Wolfgang Frisch &lt;wolfgang.frisch@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200728130437.7804-4-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix direct I/O read error</title>
<updated>2020-08-21T09:01:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiang Ying</name>
<email>jiangying8582@126.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-06T12:01:04+00:00</published>
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This patch is used to fix ext4 direct I/O read error when
the read size is not aligned with block size.

Then, I will use a test to explain the error.

(1) Make a file that is not aligned with block size:
	$dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.jar bs=1000 count=3

(2) I wrote a source file named "direct_io_read_file.c" as following:

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/file.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
	#include &lt;string.h&gt;
	#define BUF_SIZE 1024

	int main()
	{
		int fd;
		int ret;

		unsigned char *buf;
		ret = posix_memalign((void **)&amp;buf, 512, BUF_SIZE);
		if (ret) {
			perror("posix_memalign failed");
			exit(1);
		}
		fd = open("./test.jar", O_RDONLY | O_DIRECT, 0755);
		if (fd &lt; 0){
			perror("open ./test.jar failed");
			exit(1);
		}

		do {
			ret = read(fd, buf, BUF_SIZE);
			printf("ret=%d\n",ret);
			if (ret &lt; 0) {
				perror("write test.jar failed");
			}
		} while (ret &gt; 0);

		free(buf);
		close(fd);
	}

(3) Compile the source file:
	$gcc direct_io_read_file.c -D_GNU_SOURCE

(4) Run the test program:
	$./a.out

	The result is as following:
	ret=1024
	ret=1024
	ret=952
	ret=-1
	write test.jar failed: Invalid argument.

I have tested this program on XFS filesystem, XFS does not have
this problem, because XFS use iomap_dio_rw() to do direct I/O
read. And the comparing between read offset and file size is done
in iomap_dio_rw(), the code is as following:

	if (pos &lt; size) {
		retval = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos,
				pos + iov_length(iov, nr_segs) - 1);

		if (!retval) {
			retval = mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;direct_IO(READ, iocb,
						iov, pos, nr_segs);
		}
		...
	}

...only when "pos &lt; size", direct I/O can be done, or 0 will be return.

I have tested the fix patch on Ext4, it is up to the mustard of
EINVAL in man2(read) as following:
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	ssize_t read(int fd, void *buf, size_t count);

	EINVAL
		fd is attached to an object which is unsuitable for reading;
		or the file was opened with the O_DIRECT flag, and either the
		address specified in buf, the value specified in count, or the
		current file offset is not suitably aligned.

So I think this patch can be applied to fix ext4 direct I/O error.

However Ext4 introduces direct I/O read using iomap infrastructure
on kernel 5.5, the patch is commit &lt;b1b4705d54ab&gt;
("ext4: introduce direct I/O read using iomap infrastructure"),
then Ext4 will be the same as XFS, they all use iomap_dio_rw() to do direct
I/O read. So this problem does not exist on kernel 5.5 for Ext4.

&gt;From above description, we can see this problem exists on all the kernel
versions between kernel 3.14 and kernel 5.4. It will cause the Applications
to fail to read. For example, when the search service downloads a new full
index file, the search engine is loading the previous index file and is
processing the search request, it can not use buffer io that may squeeze
the previous index file in use from pagecache, so the serch service must
use direct I/O read.

Please apply this patch on these kernel versions, or please use the method
on kernel 5.5 to fix this problem.

Fixes: 9fe55eea7e4b ("Fix race when checking i_size on direct i/o read")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wang Long &lt;wanglong19@meituan.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiang Ying &lt;jiangying8582@126.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This patch is used to fix ext4 direct I/O read error when
the read size is not aligned with block size.

Then, I will use a test to explain the error.

(1) Make a file that is not aligned with block size:
	$dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.jar bs=1000 count=3

(2) I wrote a source file named "direct_io_read_file.c" as following:

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/file.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
	#include &lt;string.h&gt;
	#define BUF_SIZE 1024

	int main()
	{
		int fd;
		int ret;

		unsigned char *buf;
		ret = posix_memalign((void **)&amp;buf, 512, BUF_SIZE);
		if (ret) {
			perror("posix_memalign failed");
			exit(1);
		}
		fd = open("./test.jar", O_RDONLY | O_DIRECT, 0755);
		if (fd &lt; 0){
			perror("open ./test.jar failed");
			exit(1);
		}

		do {
			ret = read(fd, buf, BUF_SIZE);
			printf("ret=%d\n",ret);
			if (ret &lt; 0) {
				perror("write test.jar failed");
			}
		} while (ret &gt; 0);

		free(buf);
		close(fd);
	}

(3) Compile the source file:
	$gcc direct_io_read_file.c -D_GNU_SOURCE

(4) Run the test program:
	$./a.out

	The result is as following:
	ret=1024
	ret=1024
	ret=952
	ret=-1
	write test.jar failed: Invalid argument.

I have tested this program on XFS filesystem, XFS does not have
this problem, because XFS use iomap_dio_rw() to do direct I/O
read. And the comparing between read offset and file size is done
in iomap_dio_rw(), the code is as following:

	if (pos &lt; size) {
		retval = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos,
				pos + iov_length(iov, nr_segs) - 1);

		if (!retval) {
			retval = mapping-&gt;a_ops-&gt;direct_IO(READ, iocb,
						iov, pos, nr_segs);
		}
		...
	}

...only when "pos &lt; size", direct I/O can be done, or 0 will be return.

I have tested the fix patch on Ext4, it is up to the mustard of
EINVAL in man2(read) as following:
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	ssize_t read(int fd, void *buf, size_t count);

	EINVAL
		fd is attached to an object which is unsuitable for reading;
		or the file was opened with the O_DIRECT flag, and either the
		address specified in buf, the value specified in count, or the
		current file offset is not suitably aligned.

So I think this patch can be applied to fix ext4 direct I/O error.

However Ext4 introduces direct I/O read using iomap infrastructure
on kernel 5.5, the patch is commit &lt;b1b4705d54ab&gt;
("ext4: introduce direct I/O read using iomap infrastructure"),
then Ext4 will be the same as XFS, they all use iomap_dio_rw() to do direct
I/O read. So this problem does not exist on kernel 5.5 for Ext4.

&gt;From above description, we can see this problem exists on all the kernel
versions between kernel 3.14 and kernel 5.4. It will cause the Applications
to fail to read. For example, when the search service downloads a new full
index file, the search engine is loading the previous index file and is
processing the search request, it can not use buffer io that may squeeze
the previous index file in use from pagecache, so the serch service must
use direct I/O read.

Please apply this patch on these kernel versions, or please use the method
on kernel 5.5 to fix this problem.

Fixes: 9fe55eea7e4b ("Fix race when checking i_size on direct i/o read")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wang Long &lt;wanglong19@meituan.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiang Ying &lt;jiangying8582@126.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix special inode number checks in __ext4_iget()</title>
<updated>2020-05-05T17:14:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-01T03:34:31+00:00</published>
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commit 191ce17876c9367819c4b0a25b503c0f6d9054d8 upstream.

The check for special (reserved) inode number checks in __ext4_iget()
was broken by commit 8a363970d1dc: ("ext4: avoid declaring fs
inconsistent due to invalid file handles").  This was caused by a
botched reversal of the sense of the flag now known as
EXT4_IGET_SPECIAL (when it was previously named EXT4_IGET_NORMAL).
Fix the logic appropriately.

Fixes: 8a363970d1dc ("ext4: avoid declaring fs inconsistent...")
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 191ce17876c9367819c4b0a25b503c0f6d9054d8 upstream.

The check for special (reserved) inode number checks in __ext4_iget()
was broken by commit 8a363970d1dc: ("ext4: avoid declaring fs
inconsistent due to invalid file handles").  This was caused by a
botched reversal of the sense of the flag now known as
EXT4_IGET_SPECIAL (when it was previously named EXT4_IGET_NORMAL).
Fix the logic appropriately.

Fixes: 8a363970d1dc ("ext4: avoid declaring fs inconsistent...")
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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