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<title>ext4: fix a bug in ext4_wait_for_tail_page_commit</title>
<updated>2019-12-17T19:08:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>yangerkun</name>
<email>yangerkun@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-19T06:35:08+00:00</published>
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commit 565333a1554d704789e74205989305c811fd9c7a upstream.

No need to wait for any commit once the page is fully truncated.
Besides, it may confuse e.g. concurrent ext4_writepage() with the page
still be dirty (will be cleared by truncate_pagecache() in
ext4_setattr()) but buffers has been freed; and then trigger a bug
show as below:

[   26.057508] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   26.058531] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:2134!
...
[   26.088130] Call trace:
[   26.088695]  ext4_writepage+0x914/0xb28
[   26.089541]  writeout.isra.4+0x1b4/0x2b8
[   26.090409]  move_to_new_page+0x3b0/0x568
[   26.091338]  __unmap_and_move+0x648/0x988
[   26.092241]  unmap_and_move+0x48c/0xbb8
[   26.093096]  migrate_pages+0x220/0xb28
[   26.093945]  kernel_mbind+0x828/0xa18
[   26.094791]  __arm64_sys_mbind+0xc8/0x138
[   26.095716]  el0_svc_common+0x190/0x490
[   26.096571]  el0_svc_handler+0x60/0xd0
[   26.097423]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc

Run the procedure (generate by syzkaller) parallel with ext3.

void main()
{
	int fd, fd1, ret;
	void *addr;
	size_t length = 4096;
	int flags;
	off_t offset = 0;
	char *str = "12345";

	fd = open("a", O_RDWR | O_CREAT);
	assert(fd &gt;= 0);

	/* Truncate to 4k */
	ret = ftruncate(fd, length);
	assert(ret == 0);

	/* Journal data mode */
	flags = 0xc00f;
	ret = ioctl(fd, _IOW('f', 2, long), &amp;flags);
	assert(ret == 0);

	/* Truncate to 0 */
	fd1 = open("a", O_TRUNC | O_NOATIME);
	assert(fd1 &gt;= 0);

	addr = mmap(NULL, length, PROT_WRITE | PROT_READ,
					MAP_SHARED, fd, offset);
	assert(addr != (void *)-1);

	memcpy(addr, str, 5);
	mbind(addr, length, 0, 0, 0, MPOL_MF_MOVE);
}

And the bug will be triggered once we seen the below order.

reproduce1                         reproduce2

...                            |   ...
truncate to 4k                 |
change to journal data mode    |
                               |   memcpy(set page dirty)
truncate to 0:                 |
ext4_setattr:                  |
...                            |
ext4_wait_for_tail_page_commit |
                               |   mbind(trigger bug)
truncate_pagecache(clean dirty)|   ...
...                            |

mbind will call ext4_writepage() since the page still be dirty, and then
report the bug since the buffers has been free. Fix it by return
directly once offset equals to 0 which means the page has been fully
truncated.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: yangerkun &lt;yangerkun@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190919063508.1045-1-yangerkun@huawei.com
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 565333a1554d704789e74205989305c811fd9c7a upstream.

No need to wait for any commit once the page is fully truncated.
Besides, it may confuse e.g. concurrent ext4_writepage() with the page
still be dirty (will be cleared by truncate_pagecache() in
ext4_setattr()) but buffers has been freed; and then trigger a bug
show as below:

[   26.057508] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   26.058531] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:2134!
...
[   26.088130] Call trace:
[   26.088695]  ext4_writepage+0x914/0xb28
[   26.089541]  writeout.isra.4+0x1b4/0x2b8
[   26.090409]  move_to_new_page+0x3b0/0x568
[   26.091338]  __unmap_and_move+0x648/0x988
[   26.092241]  unmap_and_move+0x48c/0xbb8
[   26.093096]  migrate_pages+0x220/0xb28
[   26.093945]  kernel_mbind+0x828/0xa18
[   26.094791]  __arm64_sys_mbind+0xc8/0x138
[   26.095716]  el0_svc_common+0x190/0x490
[   26.096571]  el0_svc_handler+0x60/0xd0
[   26.097423]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc

Run the procedure (generate by syzkaller) parallel with ext3.

void main()
{
	int fd, fd1, ret;
	void *addr;
	size_t length = 4096;
	int flags;
	off_t offset = 0;
	char *str = "12345";

	fd = open("a", O_RDWR | O_CREAT);
	assert(fd &gt;= 0);

	/* Truncate to 4k */
	ret = ftruncate(fd, length);
	assert(ret == 0);

	/* Journal data mode */
	flags = 0xc00f;
	ret = ioctl(fd, _IOW('f', 2, long), &amp;flags);
	assert(ret == 0);

	/* Truncate to 0 */
	fd1 = open("a", O_TRUNC | O_NOATIME);
	assert(fd1 &gt;= 0);

	addr = mmap(NULL, length, PROT_WRITE | PROT_READ,
					MAP_SHARED, fd, offset);
	assert(addr != (void *)-1);

	memcpy(addr, str, 5);
	mbind(addr, length, 0, 0, 0, MPOL_MF_MOVE);
}

And the bug will be triggered once we seen the below order.

reproduce1                         reproduce2

...                            |   ...
truncate to 4k                 |
change to journal data mode    |
                               |   memcpy(set page dirty)
truncate to 0:                 |
ext4_setattr:                  |
...                            |
ext4_wait_for_tail_page_commit |
                               |   mbind(trigger bug)
truncate_pagecache(clean dirty)|   ...
...                            |

mbind will call ext4_writepage() since the page still be dirty, and then
report the bug since the buffers has been free. Fix it by return
directly once offset equals to 0 which means the page has been fully
truncated.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: yangerkun &lt;yangerkun@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190919063508.1045-1-yangerkun@huawei.com
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: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely</title>
<updated>2019-12-17T19:08:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-12T03:18:13+00:00</published>
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commit c7df4a1ecb8579838ec8c56b2bb6a6716e974f37 upstream.

If the file system is corrupted such that a file's i_links_count is
too small, then it's possible that when unlinking that file, i_nlink
will already be zero.  Previously we were working around this kind of
corruption by forcing i_nlink to one; but we were doing this before
trying to delete the directory entry --- and if the file system is
corrupted enough that ext4_delete_entry() fails, then we exit with
i_nlink elevated, and this causes the orphan inode list handling to be
FUBAR'ed, such that when we unmount the file system, the orphan inode
list can get corrupted.

A better way to fix this is to simply skip trying to call drop_nlink()
if i_nlink is already zero, thus moving the check to the place where
it makes the most sense.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205433

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112032903.8828-1-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c7df4a1ecb8579838ec8c56b2bb6a6716e974f37 upstream.

If the file system is corrupted such that a file's i_links_count is
too small, then it's possible that when unlinking that file, i_nlink
will already be zero.  Previously we were working around this kind of
corruption by forcing i_nlink to one; but we were doing this before
trying to delete the directory entry --- and if the file system is
corrupted enough that ext4_delete_entry() fails, then we exit with
i_nlink elevated, and this causes the orphan inode list handling to be
FUBAR'ed, such that when we unmount the file system, the orphan inode
list can get corrupted.

A better way to fix this is to simply skip trying to call drop_nlink()
if i_nlink is already zero, thus moving the check to the place where
it makes the most sense.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205433

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112032903.8828-1-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ext4: Fix credit estimate for final inode freeing</title>
<updated>2019-12-17T19:08:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-05T16:44:12+00:00</published>
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commit 65db869c754e7c271691dd5feabf884347e694f5 upstream.

Estimate for the number of credits needed for final freeing of inode in
ext4_evict_inode() was to small. We may modify 4 blocks (inode &amp; sb for
orphan deletion, bitmap &amp; group descriptor for inode freeing) and not
just 3.

[ Fixed minor whitespace nit. -- TYT ]

Fixes: e50e5129f384 ("ext4: xattr-in-inode support")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105164437.32602-6-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 65db869c754e7c271691dd5feabf884347e694f5 upstream.

Estimate for the number of credits needed for final freeing of inode in
ext4_evict_inode() was to small. We may modify 4 blocks (inode &amp; sb for
orphan deletion, bitmap &amp; group descriptor for inode freeing) and not
just 3.

[ Fixed minor whitespace nit. -- TYT ]

Fixes: e50e5129f384 ("ext4: xattr-in-inode support")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105164437.32602-6-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>
<entry>
<title>ext4: add more paranoia checking in ext4_expand_extra_isize handling</title>
<updated>2019-12-04T21:34:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-08T02:43:41+00:00</published>
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commit 4ea99936a1630f51fc3a2d61a58ec4a1c4b7d55a upstream.

It's possible to specify a non-zero s_want_extra_isize via debugging
option, and this can cause bad things(tm) to happen when using a file
system with an inode size of 128 bytes.

Add better checking when the file system is mounted, as well as when
we are actually doing the trying to do the inode expansion.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191110121510.GH23325@mit.edu
Reported-by: syzbot+f8d6f8386ceacdbfff57@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+33d7ea72e47de3bdf4e1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+44b6763edfc17144296f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
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 4ea99936a1630f51fc3a2d61a58ec4a1c4b7d55a upstream.

It's possible to specify a non-zero s_want_extra_isize via debugging
option, and this can cause bad things(tm) to happen when using a file
system with an inode size of 128 bytes.

Add better checking when the file system is mounted, as well as when
we are actually doing the trying to do the inode expansion.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191110121510.GH23325@mit.edu
Reported-by: syzbot+f8d6f8386ceacdbfff57@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+33d7ea72e47de3bdf4e1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+44b6763edfc17144296f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
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: fix potential use after free after remounting with noblock_validity</title>
<updated>2019-10-07T17:01:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhangyi (F)</name>
<email>yi.zhang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-28T15:13:24+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7727ae52975d4f4ef7ff69ed8e6e25f6a4168158 ]

Remount process will release system zone which was allocated before if
"noblock_validity" is specified. If we mount an ext4 file system to two
mountpoints with default mount options, and then remount one of them
with "noblock_validity", it may trigger a use after free problem when
someone accessing the other one.

 # mount /dev/sda foo
 # mount /dev/sda bar

User access mountpoint "foo"   |   Remount mountpoint "bar"
                               |
ext4_map_blocks()              |   ext4_remount()
check_block_validity()         |   ext4_setup_system_zone()
ext4_data_block_valid()        |   ext4_release_system_zone()
                               |   free system_blks rb nodes
access system_blks rb nodes    |
trigger use after free         |

This problem can also be reproduced by one mountpint, At the same time,
add_system_zone() can get called during remount as well so there can be
racing ext4_data_block_valid() reading the rbtree at the same time.

This patch add RCU to protect system zone from releasing or building
when doing a remount which inverse current "noblock_validity" mount
option. It assign the rbtree after the whole tree was complete and
do actual freeing after rcu grace period, avoid any intermediate state.

Reported-by: syzbot+1e470567330b7ad711d5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7727ae52975d4f4ef7ff69ed8e6e25f6a4168158 ]

Remount process will release system zone which was allocated before if
"noblock_validity" is specified. If we mount an ext4 file system to two
mountpoints with default mount options, and then remount one of them
with "noblock_validity", it may trigger a use after free problem when
someone accessing the other one.

 # mount /dev/sda foo
 # mount /dev/sda bar

User access mountpoint "foo"   |   Remount mountpoint "bar"
                               |
ext4_map_blocks()              |   ext4_remount()
check_block_validity()         |   ext4_setup_system_zone()
ext4_data_block_valid()        |   ext4_release_system_zone()
                               |   free system_blks rb nodes
access system_blks rb nodes    |
trigger use after free         |

This problem can also be reproduced by one mountpint, At the same time,
add_system_zone() can get called during remount as well so there can be
racing ext4_data_block_valid() reading the rbtree at the same time.

This patch add RCU to protect system zone from releasing or building
when doing a remount which inverse current "noblock_validity" mount
option. It assign the rbtree after the whole tree was complete and
do actual freeing after rcu grace period, avoid any intermediate state.

Reported-by: syzbot+1e470567330b7ad711d5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix punch hole for inline_data file systems</title>
<updated>2019-10-05T13:12:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-24T02:38:00+00:00</published>
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commit c1e8220bd316d8ae8e524df39534b8a412a45d5e upstream.

If a program attempts to punch a hole on an inline data file, we need
to convert it to a normal file first.

This was detected using ext4/032 using the adv configuration.  Simple
reproducer:

mke2fs -Fq -t ext4 -O inline_data /dev/vdc
mount /vdc
echo "" &gt; /vdc/testfile
xfs_io -c 'truncate 33554432' /vdc/testfile
xfs_io -c 'fpunch 0 1048576' /vdc/testfile
umount /vdc
e2fsck -fy /dev/vdc

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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 c1e8220bd316d8ae8e524df39534b8a412a45d5e upstream.

If a program attempts to punch a hole on an inline data file, we need
to convert it to a normal file first.

This was detected using ext4/032 using the adv configuration.  Simple
reproducer:

mke2fs -Fq -t ext4 -O inline_data /dev/vdc
mount /vdc
echo "" &gt; /vdc/testfile
xfs_io -c 'truncate 33554432' /vdc/testfile
xfs_io -c 'fpunch 0 1048576' /vdc/testfile
umount /vdc
e2fsck -fy /dev/vdc

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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 warning inside ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio</title>
<updated>2019-10-05T13:12:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rakesh Pandit</name>
<email>rakesh@tuxera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-23T02:53:46+00:00</published>
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commit e3d550c2c4f2f3dba469bc3c4b83d9332b4e99e1 upstream.

Really enable warning when CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG is set and fix missing
first argument.  This was introduced in commit ff95ec22cd7f ("ext4:
add warning to ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio") and splitting
extents inside endio would trigger it.

Fixes: ff95ec22cd7f ("ext4: add warning to ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio")
Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pandit &lt;rakesh@tuxera.com&gt;
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 e3d550c2c4f2f3dba469bc3c4b83d9332b4e99e1 upstream.

Really enable warning when CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG is set and fix missing
first argument.  This was introduced in commit ff95ec22cd7f ("ext4:
add warning to ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio") and splitting
extents inside endio would trigger it.

Fixes: ff95ec22cd7f ("ext4: add warning to ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio")
Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pandit &lt;rakesh@tuxera.com&gt;
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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<title>Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug"</title>
<updated>2019-09-15T19:32:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-15T19:32:03+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit b03755ad6f33b7b8cd7312a3596a2dbf496de6e7.

This is sad, and done for all the wrong reasons.  Because that commit is
good, and does exactly what it says: avoids a lot of small disk requests
for the inode table read-ahead.

However, it turns out that it causes an entirely unrelated problem: the
getrandom() system call was introduced back in 2014 by commit
c6e9d6f38894 ("random: introduce getrandom(2) system call"), and people
use it as a convenient source of good random numbers.

But part of the current semantics for getrandom() is that it waits for
the entropy pool to fill at least partially (unlike /dev/urandom).  And
at least ArchLinux apparently has a systemd that uses getrandom() at
boot time, and the improvements in IO patterns means that existing
installations suddenly start hanging, waiting for entropy that will
never happen.

It seems to be an unlucky combination of not _quite_ enough entropy,
together with a particular systemd version and configuration.  Lennart
says that the systemd-random-seed process (which is what does this early
access) is supposed to not block any other boot activity, but sadly that
doesn't actually seem to be the case (possibly due bogus dependencies on
cryptsetup for encrypted swapspace).

The correct fix is to fix getrandom() to not block when it's not
appropriate, but that fix is going to take a lot more discussion.  Do we
just make it act like /dev/urandom by default, and add a new flag for
"wait for entropy"? Do we add a boot-time option? Or do we just limit
the amount of time it will wait for entropy?

So in the meantime, we do the revert to give us time to discuss the
eventual fix for the fundamental problem, at which point we can re-apply
the ext4 inode table access optimization.

Reported-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ted Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov &lt;patrakov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennart Poettering &lt;mzxreary@0pointer.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit b03755ad6f33b7b8cd7312a3596a2dbf496de6e7.

This is sad, and done for all the wrong reasons.  Because that commit is
good, and does exactly what it says: avoids a lot of small disk requests
for the inode table read-ahead.

However, it turns out that it causes an entirely unrelated problem: the
getrandom() system call was introduced back in 2014 by commit
c6e9d6f38894 ("random: introduce getrandom(2) system call"), and people
use it as a convenient source of good random numbers.

But part of the current semantics for getrandom() is that it waits for
the entropy pool to fill at least partially (unlike /dev/urandom).  And
at least ArchLinux apparently has a systemd that uses getrandom() at
boot time, and the improvements in IO patterns means that existing
installations suddenly start hanging, waiting for entropy that will
never happen.

It seems to be an unlucky combination of not _quite_ enough entropy,
together with a particular systemd version and configuration.  Lennart
says that the systemd-random-seed process (which is what does this early
access) is supposed to not block any other boot activity, but sadly that
doesn't actually seem to be the case (possibly due bogus dependencies on
cryptsetup for encrypted swapspace).

The correct fix is to fix getrandom() to not block when it's not
appropriate, but that fix is going to take a lot more discussion.  Do we
just make it act like /dev/urandom by default, and add a new flag for
"wait for entropy"? Do we add a boot-time option? Or do we just limit
the amount of time it will wait for entropy?

So in the meantime, we do the revert to give us time to discuss the
eventual fix for the fundamental problem, at which point we can re-apply
the ext4 inode table access optimization.

Reported-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ted Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov &lt;patrakov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennart Poettering &lt;mzxreary@0pointer.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2019-07-18T17:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-18T17:52:08+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "Primarily just the virtio_pmem driver:

   - virtio_pmem

     The new virtio_pmem facility introduces a paravirtualized
     persistent memory device that allows a guest VM to use DAX
     mechanisms to access a host-file with host-page-cache. It arranges
     for MAP_SYNC to be disabled and instead triggers a host fsync()
     when a 'write-cache flush' command is sent to the virtual disk
     device.

   - Miscellaneous small fixups"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  virtio_pmem: fix sparse warning
  xfs: disable map_sync for async flush
  ext4: disable map_sync for async flush
  dax: check synchronous mapping is supported
  dm: enable synchronous dax
  libnvdimm: add dax_dev sync flag
  virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver
  libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support
  libnvdimm, namespace: Drop uuid_t implementation detail
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "Primarily just the virtio_pmem driver:

   - virtio_pmem

     The new virtio_pmem facility introduces a paravirtualized
     persistent memory device that allows a guest VM to use DAX
     mechanisms to access a host-file with host-page-cache. It arranges
     for MAP_SYNC to be disabled and instead triggers a host fsync()
     when a 'write-cache flush' command is sent to the virtual disk
     device.

   - Miscellaneous small fixups"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  virtio_pmem: fix sparse warning
  xfs: disable map_sync for async flush
  ext4: disable map_sync for async flush
  dax: check synchronous mapping is supported
  dm: enable synchronous dax
  libnvdimm: add dax_dev sync flag
  virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver
  libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support
  libnvdimm, namespace: Drop uuid_t implementation detail
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-20190715' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2019-07-16T04:20:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T04:20:52+00:00</published>
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Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "A later pull request with some followup items. I had some vacation
  coming up to the merge window, so certain things items were delayed a
  bit. This pull request also contains fixes that came in within the
  last few days of the merge window, which I didn't want to push right
  before sending you a pull request.

  This contains:

   - NVMe pull request, mostly fixes, but also a few minor items on the
     feature side that were timing constrained (Christoph et al)

   - Report zones fixes (Damien)

   - Removal of dead code (Damien)

   - Turn on cgroup psi memstall (Josef)

   - block cgroup MAINTAINERS entry (Konstantin)

   - Flush init fix (Josef)

   - blk-throttle low iops timing fix (Konstantin)

   - nbd resize fixes (Mike)

   - nbd 0 blocksize crash fix (Xiubo)

   - block integrity error leak fix (Wenwen)

   - blk-cgroup writeback and priority inheritance fixes (Tejun)"

* tag 'for-linus-20190715' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (42 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add entry for block io cgroup
  null_blk: fixup -&gt;report_zones() for !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED
  block: Limit zone array allocation size
  sd_zbc: Fix report zones buffer allocation
  block: Kill gfp_t argument of blkdev_report_zones()
  block: Allow mapping of vmalloc-ed buffers
  block/bio-integrity: fix a memory leak bug
  nvme: fix NULL deref for fabrics options
  nbd: add netlink reconfigure resize support
  nbd: fix crash when the blksize is zero
  block: Disable write plugging for zoned block devices
  block: Fix elevator name declaration
  block: Remove unused definitions
  nvme: fix regression upon hot device removal and insertion
  blk-throttle: fix zero wait time for iops throttled group
  block: Fix potential overflow in blk_report_zones()
  blkcg: implement REQ_CGROUP_PUNT
  blkcg, writeback: Implement wbc_blkcg_css()
  blkcg, writeback: Add wbc-&gt;no_cgroup_owner
  blkcg, writeback: Rename wbc_account_io() to wbc_account_cgroup_owner()
  ...
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Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "A later pull request with some followup items. I had some vacation
  coming up to the merge window, so certain things items were delayed a
  bit. This pull request also contains fixes that came in within the
  last few days of the merge window, which I didn't want to push right
  before sending you a pull request.

  This contains:

   - NVMe pull request, mostly fixes, but also a few minor items on the
     feature side that were timing constrained (Christoph et al)

   - Report zones fixes (Damien)

   - Removal of dead code (Damien)

   - Turn on cgroup psi memstall (Josef)

   - block cgroup MAINTAINERS entry (Konstantin)

   - Flush init fix (Josef)

   - blk-throttle low iops timing fix (Konstantin)

   - nbd resize fixes (Mike)

   - nbd 0 blocksize crash fix (Xiubo)

   - block integrity error leak fix (Wenwen)

   - blk-cgroup writeback and priority inheritance fixes (Tejun)"

* tag 'for-linus-20190715' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (42 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add entry for block io cgroup
  null_blk: fixup -&gt;report_zones() for !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED
  block: Limit zone array allocation size
  sd_zbc: Fix report zones buffer allocation
  block: Kill gfp_t argument of blkdev_report_zones()
  block: Allow mapping of vmalloc-ed buffers
  block/bio-integrity: fix a memory leak bug
  nvme: fix NULL deref for fabrics options
  nbd: add netlink reconfigure resize support
  nbd: fix crash when the blksize is zero
  block: Disable write plugging for zoned block devices
  block: Fix elevator name declaration
  block: Remove unused definitions
  nvme: fix regression upon hot device removal and insertion
  blk-throttle: fix zero wait time for iops throttled group
  block: Fix potential overflow in blk_report_zones()
  blkcg: implement REQ_CGROUP_PUNT
  blkcg, writeback: Implement wbc_blkcg_css()
  blkcg, writeback: Add wbc-&gt;no_cgroup_owner
  blkcg, writeback: Rename wbc_account_io() to wbc_account_cgroup_owner()
  ...
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