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<title>ext4: return ENOMEM if sb_getblk() fails</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T23:10:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-12T21:19:36+00:00</published>
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commit 860d21e2c585f7ee8a4ecc06f474fdc33c9474f4 upstream.

The only reason for sb_getblk() failing is if it can't allocate the
buffer_head.  So ENOMEM is more appropriate than EIO.  In addition,
make sure that the file system is marked as being inconsistent if
sb_getblk() fails.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
[xr: Backported to 3.4:
 - Drop change to inline.c
 - Call to ext4_ext_check() from ext4_ext_find_extent() is conditional]
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 860d21e2c585f7ee8a4ecc06f474fdc33c9474f4 upstream.

The only reason for sb_getblk() failing is if it can't allocate the
buffer_head.  So ENOMEM is more appropriate than EIO.  In addition,
make sure that the file system is marked as being inconsistent if
sb_getblk() fails.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
[xr: Backported to 3.4:
 - Drop change to inline.c
 - Call to ext4_ext_check() from ext4_ext_find_extent() is conditional]
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cifs: adjust sequence number downward after signing NT_CANCEL request</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T23:10:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-27T13:05:03+00:00</published>
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commit 31efee60f489c759c341454d755a9fd13de8c03d upstream.

When a call goes out, the signing code adjusts the sequence number
upward by two to account for the request and the response. An NT_CANCEL
however doesn't get a response of its own, it just hurries the server
along to get it to respond to the original request more quickly.
Therefore, we must adjust the sequence number back down by one after
signing a NT_CANCEL request.

Reported-by: Tim Perry &lt;tdparmor-sambabugs@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 31efee60f489c759c341454d755a9fd13de8c03d upstream.

When a call goes out, the signing code adjusts the sequence number
upward by two to account for the request and the response. An NT_CANCEL
however doesn't get a response of its own, it just hurries the server
along to get it to respond to the original request more quickly.
Therefore, we must adjust the sequence number back down by one after
signing a NT_CANCEL request.

Reported-by: Tim Perry &lt;tdparmor-sambabugs@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix possible use-after-free with AIO</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T23:10:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-30T03:48:17+00:00</published>
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commit 091e26dfc156aeb3b73bc5c5f277e433ad39331c upstream.

Running AIO is pinning inode in memory using file reference. Once AIO
is completed using aio_complete(), file reference is put and inode can
be freed from memory. So we have to be sure that calling aio_complete()
is the last thing we do with the inode.

Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 091e26dfc156aeb3b73bc5c5f277e433ad39331c upstream.

Running AIO is pinning inode in memory using file reference. Once AIO
is completed using aio_complete(), file reference is put and inode can
be freed from memory. So we have to be sure that calling aio_complete()
is the last thing we do with the inode.

Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>UBIFS: fix double free of ubifs_orphan objects</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T23:10:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Thomas</name>
<email>adamthomas1111@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-02T22:35:08+00:00</published>
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commit 8afd500cb52a5d00bab4525dd5a560d199f979b9 upstream.

The last orphan in the dnext list has its dnext set to NULL. Because
of that, ubifs_delete_orphan assumes that it is not on the dnext list
and frees it immediately instead ignoring it as a second delete. The
orphan is later freed again by erase_deleted.

This change adds an explicit flag to ubifs_orphan indicating whether
it is pending delete.

Signed-off-by: Adam Thomas &lt;adamthomas1111@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8afd500cb52a5d00bab4525dd5a560d199f979b9 upstream.

The last orphan in the dnext list has its dnext set to NULL. Because
of that, ubifs_delete_orphan assumes that it is not on the dnext list
and frees it immediately instead ignoring it as a second delete. The
orphan is later freed again by erase_deleted.

This change adds an explicit flag to ubifs_orphan indicating whether
it is pending delete.

Signed-off-by: Adam Thomas &lt;adamthomas1111@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T23:10:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-04T02:02:52+00:00</published>
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commit d76a3a77113db020d9bb1e894822869410450bd9 upstream.

In the case where an inode has a very stale transaction id (tid) in
i_datasync_tid or i_sync_tid, it's possible that after a very large
(2**31) number of transactions, that the tid number space might wrap,
causing tid_geq()'s calculations to fail.

Commit deeeaf13 "jbd2: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug", later modified
by commit e7b04ac0 "jbd2: don't wake kjournald unnecessarily",
attempted to fix this problem, but it only avoided kjournald spinning
forever by fixing the logic in jbd2_log_start_commit().

Unfortunately, in the codepaths in fs/ext4/fsync.c and fs/ext4/inode.c
that might call jbd2_log_start_commit() with a stale tid, those
functions will subsequently call jbd2_log_wait_commit() with the same
stale tid, and then wait for a very long time.  To fix this, we
replace the calls to jbd2_log_start_commit() and
jbd2_log_wait_commit() with a call to a new function,
jbd2_complete_transaction(), which will correctly handle stale tid's.

As a bonus, jbd2_complete_transaction() will avoid locking
j_state_lock for writing unless a commit needs to be started.  This
should have a small (but probably not measurable) improvement for
ext4's scalability.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: George Barnett &lt;gbarnett@atlassian.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d76a3a77113db020d9bb1e894822869410450bd9 upstream.

In the case where an inode has a very stale transaction id (tid) in
i_datasync_tid or i_sync_tid, it's possible that after a very large
(2**31) number of transactions, that the tid number space might wrap,
causing tid_geq()'s calculations to fail.

Commit deeeaf13 "jbd2: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug", later modified
by commit e7b04ac0 "jbd2: don't wake kjournald unnecessarily",
attempted to fix this problem, but it only avoided kjournald spinning
forever by fixing the logic in jbd2_log_start_commit().

Unfortunately, in the codepaths in fs/ext4/fsync.c and fs/ext4/inode.c
that might call jbd2_log_start_commit() with a stale tid, those
functions will subsequently call jbd2_log_wait_commit() with the same
stale tid, and then wait for a very long time.  To fix this, we
replace the calls to jbd2_log_start_commit() and
jbd2_log_wait_commit() with a call to a new function,
jbd2_complete_transaction(), which will correctly handle stale tid's.

As a bonus, jbd2_complete_transaction() will avoid locking
j_state_lock for writing unless a commit needs to be started.  This
should have a small (but probably not measurable) improvement for
ext4's scalability.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: George Barnett &lt;gbarnett@atlassian.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ncpfs: fix rmdir returns Device or resource busy</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T23:10:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chiluk</name>
<email>chiluk@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-28T21:06:08+00:00</published>
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commit 698b8223631472bf982ed570b0812faa61955683 upstream.

1d2ef5901483004d74947bbf78d5146c24038fe7 caused a regression in ncpfs such that
directories could no longer be removed.  This was because ncp_rmdir checked
to see if a dentry could be unhashed before allowing it to be removed. Since
1d2ef5901483004d74947bbf78d5146c24038fe7 introduced a change that incremented
dentry-&gt;d_count causing it to always be greater than 1 unhash would always
fail.  Thus causing the error path in ncp_rmdir to always be taken.  Removing
this error path is safe as unhashing is still accomplished by calls to dput
from vfs_rmdir.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chiluk &lt;chiluk@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec &lt;petr@vandrovec.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 698b8223631472bf982ed570b0812faa61955683 upstream.

1d2ef5901483004d74947bbf78d5146c24038fe7 caused a regression in ncpfs such that
directories could no longer be removed.  This was because ncp_rmdir checked
to see if a dentry could be unhashed before allowing it to be removed. Since
1d2ef5901483004d74947bbf78d5146c24038fe7 introduced a change that incremented
dentry-&gt;d_count causing it to always be greater than 1 unhash would always
fail.  Thus causing the error path in ncp_rmdir to always be taken.  Removing
this error path is safe as unhashing is still accomplished by calls to dput
from vfs_rmdir.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chiluk &lt;chiluk@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec &lt;petr@vandrovec.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cifs: don't instantiate new dentries in readdir for inodes that need to be revalidated immediately</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T23:10:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-07T14:29:08+00:00</published>
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commit 757c4f6260febff982276818bb946df89c1105aa upstream.

David reported that commit c2b93e06 (cifs: only set ops for inodes in
I_NEW state) caused a regression with mfsymlinks. Prior to that patch,
if a mfsymlink dentry was instantiated at readdir time, the inode would
get a new set of ops when it was revalidated. After that patch, this
did not occur.

This patch addresses this by simply skipping instantiating dentries in
the readdir codepath when we know that they will need to be immediately
revalidated. The next attempt to use that dentry will cause a new lookup
to occur (which is basically what we want to happen anyway).

Cc: "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" &lt;metze@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Sachin Prabhu &lt;sprabhu@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-and-Tested-by: David McBride &lt;dwm37@cam.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: need to return NULL]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 757c4f6260febff982276818bb946df89c1105aa upstream.

David reported that commit c2b93e06 (cifs: only set ops for inodes in
I_NEW state) caused a regression with mfsymlinks. Prior to that patch,
if a mfsymlink dentry was instantiated at readdir time, the inode would
get a new set of ops when it was revalidated. After that patch, this
did not occur.

This patch addresses this by simply skipping instantiating dentries in
the readdir codepath when we know that they will need to be immediately
revalidated. The next attempt to use that dentry will cause a new lookup
to occur (which is basically what we want to happen anyway).

Cc: "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" &lt;metze@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Sachin Prabhu &lt;sprabhu@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-and-Tested-by: David McBride &lt;dwm37@cam.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: need to return NULL]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fuse: hotfix truncate_pagecache() issue</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T23:10:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Patlasov</name>
<email>MPatlasov@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-30T13:06:04+00:00</published>
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commit 06a7c3c2781409af95000c60a5df743fd4e2f8b4 upstream.

The way how fuse calls truncate_pagecache() from fuse_change_attributes()
is completely wrong. Because, w/o i_mutex held, we never sure whether
'oldsize' and 'attr-&gt;size' are valid by the time of execution of
truncate_pagecache(inode, oldsize, attr-&gt;size). In fact, as soon as we
released fc-&gt;lock in the middle of fuse_change_attributes(), we completely
loose control of actions which may happen with given inode until we reach
truncate_pagecache. The list of potentially dangerous actions includes
mmap-ed reads and writes, ftruncate(2) and write(2) extending file size.

The typical outcome of doing truncate_pagecache() with outdated arguments
is data corruption from user point of view. This is (in some sense)
acceptable in cases when the issue is triggered by a change of the file on
the server (i.e. externally wrt fuse operation), but it is absolutely
intolerable in scenarios when a single fuse client modifies a file without
any external intervention. A real life case I discovered by fsx-linux
looked like this:

1. Shrinking ftruncate(2) comes to fuse_do_setattr(). The latter sends
FUSE_SETATTR to the server synchronously, but before getting fc-&gt;lock ...
2. fuse_dentry_revalidate() is asynchronously called. It sends FUSE_LOOKUP
to the server synchronously, then calls fuse_change_attributes(). The
latter updates i_size, releases fc-&gt;lock, but before comparing oldsize vs
attr-&gt;size..
3. fuse_do_setattr() from the first step proceeds by acquiring fc-&gt;lock and
updating attributes and i_size, but now oldsize is equal to
outarg.attr.size because i_size has just been updated (step 2). Hence,
fuse_do_setattr() returns w/o calling truncate_pagecache().
4. As soon as ftruncate(2) completes, the user extends file size by
write(2) making a hole in the middle of file, then reads data from the hole
either by read(2) or mmap-ed read. The user expects to get zero data from
the hole, but gets stale data because truncate_pagecache() is not executed
yet.

The scenario above illustrates one side of the problem: not truncating the
page cache even though we should. Another side corresponds to truncating
page cache too late, when the state of inode changed significantly.
Theoretically, the following is possible:

1. As in the previous scenario fuse_dentry_revalidate() discovered that
i_size changed (due to our own fuse_do_setattr()) and is going to call
truncate_pagecache() for some 'new_size' it believes valid right now. But
by the time that particular truncate_pagecache() is called ...
2. fuse_do_setattr() returns (either having called truncate_pagecache() or
not -- it doesn't matter).
3. The file is extended either by write(2) or ftruncate(2) or fallocate(2).
4. mmap-ed write makes a page in the extended region dirty.

The result will be the lost of data user wrote on the fourth step.

The patch is a hotfix resolving the issue in a simplistic way: let's skip
dangerous i_size update and truncate_pagecache if an operation changing
file size is in progress. This simplistic approach looks correct for the
cases w/o external changes. And to handle them properly, more sophisticated
and intrusive techniques (e.g. NFS-like one) would be required. I'd like to
postpone it until the issue is well discussed on the mailing list(s).

Changed in v2:
 - improved patch description to cover both sides of the issue.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov &lt;mpatlasov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: add the fuse_inode::state field which we didn't have]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 06a7c3c2781409af95000c60a5df743fd4e2f8b4 upstream.

The way how fuse calls truncate_pagecache() from fuse_change_attributes()
is completely wrong. Because, w/o i_mutex held, we never sure whether
'oldsize' and 'attr-&gt;size' are valid by the time of execution of
truncate_pagecache(inode, oldsize, attr-&gt;size). In fact, as soon as we
released fc-&gt;lock in the middle of fuse_change_attributes(), we completely
loose control of actions which may happen with given inode until we reach
truncate_pagecache. The list of potentially dangerous actions includes
mmap-ed reads and writes, ftruncate(2) and write(2) extending file size.

The typical outcome of doing truncate_pagecache() with outdated arguments
is data corruption from user point of view. This is (in some sense)
acceptable in cases when the issue is triggered by a change of the file on
the server (i.e. externally wrt fuse operation), but it is absolutely
intolerable in scenarios when a single fuse client modifies a file without
any external intervention. A real life case I discovered by fsx-linux
looked like this:

1. Shrinking ftruncate(2) comes to fuse_do_setattr(). The latter sends
FUSE_SETATTR to the server synchronously, but before getting fc-&gt;lock ...
2. fuse_dentry_revalidate() is asynchronously called. It sends FUSE_LOOKUP
to the server synchronously, then calls fuse_change_attributes(). The
latter updates i_size, releases fc-&gt;lock, but before comparing oldsize vs
attr-&gt;size..
3. fuse_do_setattr() from the first step proceeds by acquiring fc-&gt;lock and
updating attributes and i_size, but now oldsize is equal to
outarg.attr.size because i_size has just been updated (step 2). Hence,
fuse_do_setattr() returns w/o calling truncate_pagecache().
4. As soon as ftruncate(2) completes, the user extends file size by
write(2) making a hole in the middle of file, then reads data from the hole
either by read(2) or mmap-ed read. The user expects to get zero data from
the hole, but gets stale data because truncate_pagecache() is not executed
yet.

The scenario above illustrates one side of the problem: not truncating the
page cache even though we should. Another side corresponds to truncating
page cache too late, when the state of inode changed significantly.
Theoretically, the following is possible:

1. As in the previous scenario fuse_dentry_revalidate() discovered that
i_size changed (due to our own fuse_do_setattr()) and is going to call
truncate_pagecache() for some 'new_size' it believes valid right now. But
by the time that particular truncate_pagecache() is called ...
2. fuse_do_setattr() returns (either having called truncate_pagecache() or
not -- it doesn't matter).
3. The file is extended either by write(2) or ftruncate(2) or fallocate(2).
4. mmap-ed write makes a page in the extended region dirty.

The result will be the lost of data user wrote on the fourth step.

The patch is a hotfix resolving the issue in a simplistic way: let's skip
dangerous i_size update and truncate_pagecache if an operation changing
file size is in progress. This simplistic approach looks correct for the
cases w/o external changes. And to handle them properly, more sophisticated
and intrusive techniques (e.g. NFS-like one) would be required. I'd like to
postpone it until the issue is well discussed on the mailing list(s).

Changed in v2:
 - improved patch description to cover both sides of the issue.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov &lt;mpatlasov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: add the fuse_inode::state field which we didn't have]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fuse: readdir: check for slash in names</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T23:10:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-03T12:28:38+00:00</published>
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commit efeb9e60d48f7778fdcad4a0f3ad9ea9b19e5dfd upstream.

Userspace can add names containing a slash character to the directory
listing.  Don't allow this as it could cause all sorts of trouble.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop changes to parse_dirplusfile() which we
 don't have]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit efeb9e60d48f7778fdcad4a0f3ad9ea9b19e5dfd upstream.

Userspace can add names containing a slash character to the directory
listing.  Don't allow this as it could cause all sorts of trouble.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop changes to parse_dirplusfile() which we
 don't have]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: fix issue with race condition of competition between segments for dirty blocks</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T23:10:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vyacheslav Dubeyko</name>
<email>slava@dubeyko.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-30T20:45:12+00:00</published>
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commit 7f42ec3941560f0902fe3671e36f2c20ffd3af0a upstream.

Many NILFS2 users were reported about strange file system corruption
(for example):

   NILFS: bad btree node (blocknr=185027): level = 0, flags = 0x0, nchildren = 768
   NILFS error (device sda4): nilfs_bmap_last_key: broken bmap (inode number=11540)

But such error messages are consequence of file system's issue that takes
place more earlier.  Fortunately, Jerome Poulin &lt;jeromepoulin@gmail.com&gt;
and Anton Eliasson &lt;devel@antoneliasson.se&gt; were reported about another
issue not so recently.  These reports describe the issue with segctor
thread's crash:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000004c83
  IP: nilfs_end_page_io+0x12/0xd0 [nilfs2]

  Call Trace:
   nilfs_segctor_do_construct+0xf25/0x1b20 [nilfs2]
   nilfs_segctor_construct+0x17b/0x290 [nilfs2]
   nilfs_segctor_thread+0x122/0x3b0 [nilfs2]
   kthread+0xc0/0xd0
   ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

These two issues have one reason.  This reason can raise third issue
too.  Third issue results in hanging of segctor thread with eating of
100% CPU.

REPRODUCING PATH:

One of the possible way or the issue reproducing was described by
Jermoe me Poulin &lt;jeromepoulin@gmail.com&gt;:

1. init S to get to single user mode.
2. sysrq+E to make sure only my shell is running
3. start network-manager to get my wifi connection up
4. login as root and launch "screen"
5. cd /boot/log/nilfs which is a ext3 mount point and can log when NILFS dies.
6. lscp | xz -9e &gt; lscp.txt.xz
7. mount my snapshot using mount -o cp=3360839,ro /dev/vgUbuntu/root /mnt/nilfs
8. start a screen to dump /proc/kmsg to text file since rsyslog is killed
9. start a screen and launch strace -f -o find-cat.log -t find
/mnt/nilfs -type f -exec cat {} &gt; /dev/null \;
10. start a screen and launch strace -f -o apt-get.log -t apt-get update
11. launch the last command again as it did not crash the first time
12. apt-get crashes
13. ps aux &gt; ps-aux-crashed.log
13. sysrq+W
14. sysrq+E  wait for everything to terminate
15. sysrq+SUSB

Simplified way of the issue reproducing is starting kernel compilation
task and "apt-get update" in parallel.

REPRODUCIBILITY:

The issue is reproduced not stable [60% - 80%].  It is very important to
have proper environment for the issue reproducing.  The critical
conditions for successful reproducing:

(1) It should have big modified file by mmap() way.

(2) This file should have the count of dirty blocks are greater that
    several segments in size (for example, two or three) from time to time
    during processing.

(3) It should be intensive background activity of files modification
    in another thread.

INVESTIGATION:

First of all, it is possible to see that the reason of crash is not valid
page address:

  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_complete_write]:2100 bh-&gt;b_count 0, bh-&gt;b_blocknr 13895680, bh-&gt;b_size 13897727, bh-&gt;b_page 0000000000001a82
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_complete_write]:2101 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6783

Moreover, value of b_page (0x1a82) is 6786.  This value looks like segment
number.  And b_blocknr with b_size values look like block numbers.  So,
buffer_head's pointer points on not proper address value.

Detailed investigation of the issue is discovered such picture:

  [-----------------------------SEGMENT 6783-------------------------------]
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2310 nilfs_segctor_begin_construction
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2321 nilfs_segctor_collect
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2336 nilfs_segctor_assign
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2367 nilfs_segctor_update_segusage
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2371 nilfs_segctor_prepare_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2376 nilfs_add_checksums_on_logs
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2381 nilfs_segctor_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bio]:464 bio-&gt;bi_sector 111149024, segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6783

  [-----------------------------SEGMENT 6784-------------------------------]
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2310 nilfs_segctor_begin_construction
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2321 nilfs_segctor_collect
  NILFS [nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers]:782 bh-&gt;b_count 1, bh-&gt;b_page ffffea000709b000, page-&gt;index 0, i_ino 1033103, i_size 25165824
  NILFS [nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers]:783 bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff8802174a6798, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880221cffee8
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2336 nilfs_segctor_assign
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2367 nilfs_segctor_update_segusage
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2371 nilfs_segctor_prepare_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2376 nilfs_add_checksums_on_logs
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2381 nilfs_segctor_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:575 bh-&gt;b_count 1, bh-&gt;b_page ffffea000709b000, page-&gt;index 0, i_ino 1033103, i_size 25165824
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:576 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6784
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:577 bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff880218a0d5f8, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880218bcdf50
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bio]:464 bio-&gt;bi_sector 111150080, segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6784, segbuf-&gt;sb_nbio 0
  [----------] ditto
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bio]:464 bio-&gt;bi_sector 111164416, segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6784, segbuf-&gt;sb_nbio 15

  [-----------------------------SEGMENT 6785-------------------------------]
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2310 nilfs_segctor_begin_construction
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2321 nilfs_segctor_collect
  NILFS [nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers]:782 bh-&gt;b_count 2, bh-&gt;b_page ffffea000709b000, page-&gt;index 0, i_ino 1033103, i_size 25165824
  NILFS [nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers]:783 bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff880219277e80, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880221cffc88
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2367 nilfs_segctor_update_segusage
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2371 nilfs_segctor_prepare_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2376 nilfs_add_checksums_on_logs
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2381 nilfs_segctor_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:575 bh-&gt;b_count 2, bh-&gt;b_page ffffea000709b000, page-&gt;index 0, i_ino 1033103, i_size 25165824
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:576 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6785
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:577 bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff880218a0d5f8, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880222cc7ee8
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bio]:464 bio-&gt;bi_sector 111165440, segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6785, segbuf-&gt;sb_nbio 0
  [----------] ditto
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bio]:464 bio-&gt;bi_sector 111177728, segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6785, segbuf-&gt;sb_nbio 12

  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2399 nilfs_segctor_wait
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_wait]:676 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6783
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_wait]:676 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6784
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_wait]:676 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6785

  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_complete_write]:2100 bh-&gt;b_count 0, bh-&gt;b_blocknr 13895680, bh-&gt;b_size 13897727, bh-&gt;b_page 0000000000001a82

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001a82
  IP: [&lt;ffffffffa024d0f2&gt;] nilfs_end_page_io+0x12/0xd0 [nilfs2]

Usually, for every segment we collect dirty files in list.  Then, dirty
blocks are gathered for every dirty file, prepared for write and
submitted by means of nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh() call.  Finally, it takes
place complete write phase after calling nilfs_end_bio_write() on the
block layer.  Buffers/pages are marked as not dirty on final phase and
processed files removed from the list of dirty files.

It is possible to see that we had three prepare_write and submit_bio
phases before segbuf_wait and complete_write phase.  Moreover, segments
compete between each other for dirty blocks because on every iteration
of segments processing dirty buffer_heads are added in several lists of
payload_buffers:

  [SEGMENT 6784]: bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff880218a0d5f8, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880218bcdf50
  [SEGMENT 6785]: bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff880218a0d5f8, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880222cc7ee8

The next pointer is the same but prev pointer has changed.  It means
that buffer_head has next pointer from one list but prev pointer from
another.  Such modification can be made several times.  And, finally, it
can be resulted in various issues: (1) segctor hanging, (2) segctor
crashing, (3) file system metadata corruption.

FIX:
This patch adds:

(1) setting of BH_Async_Write flag in nilfs_segctor_prepare_write()
    for every proccessed dirty block;

(2) checking of BH_Async_Write flag in
    nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() and
    nilfs_lookup_dirty_node_buffers();

(3) clearing of BH_Async_Write flag in nilfs_segctor_complete_write(),
    nilfs_abort_logs(), nilfs_forget_buffer(), nilfs_clear_dirty_page().

Reported-by: Jerome Poulin &lt;jeromepoulin@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anton Eliasson &lt;devel@antoneliasson.se&gt;
Cc: Paul Fertser &lt;fercerpav@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: ARAI Shun-ichi &lt;hermes@ceres.dti.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Piotr Szymaniak &lt;szarpaj@grubelek.pl&gt;
Cc: Juan Barry Manuel Canham &lt;Linux@riotingpacifist.net&gt;
Cc: Zahid Chowdhury &lt;zahid.chowdhury@starsolutions.com&gt;
Cc: Elmer Zhang &lt;freeboy6716@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kenneth Langga &lt;klangga@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: nilfs_clear_dirty_page() has not been separated
 from nilfs_clear_dirty_pages()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7f42ec3941560f0902fe3671e36f2c20ffd3af0a upstream.

Many NILFS2 users were reported about strange file system corruption
(for example):

   NILFS: bad btree node (blocknr=185027): level = 0, flags = 0x0, nchildren = 768
   NILFS error (device sda4): nilfs_bmap_last_key: broken bmap (inode number=11540)

But such error messages are consequence of file system's issue that takes
place more earlier.  Fortunately, Jerome Poulin &lt;jeromepoulin@gmail.com&gt;
and Anton Eliasson &lt;devel@antoneliasson.se&gt; were reported about another
issue not so recently.  These reports describe the issue with segctor
thread's crash:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000004c83
  IP: nilfs_end_page_io+0x12/0xd0 [nilfs2]

  Call Trace:
   nilfs_segctor_do_construct+0xf25/0x1b20 [nilfs2]
   nilfs_segctor_construct+0x17b/0x290 [nilfs2]
   nilfs_segctor_thread+0x122/0x3b0 [nilfs2]
   kthread+0xc0/0xd0
   ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

These two issues have one reason.  This reason can raise third issue
too.  Third issue results in hanging of segctor thread with eating of
100% CPU.

REPRODUCING PATH:

One of the possible way or the issue reproducing was described by
Jermoe me Poulin &lt;jeromepoulin@gmail.com&gt;:

1. init S to get to single user mode.
2. sysrq+E to make sure only my shell is running
3. start network-manager to get my wifi connection up
4. login as root and launch "screen"
5. cd /boot/log/nilfs which is a ext3 mount point and can log when NILFS dies.
6. lscp | xz -9e &gt; lscp.txt.xz
7. mount my snapshot using mount -o cp=3360839,ro /dev/vgUbuntu/root /mnt/nilfs
8. start a screen to dump /proc/kmsg to text file since rsyslog is killed
9. start a screen and launch strace -f -o find-cat.log -t find
/mnt/nilfs -type f -exec cat {} &gt; /dev/null \;
10. start a screen and launch strace -f -o apt-get.log -t apt-get update
11. launch the last command again as it did not crash the first time
12. apt-get crashes
13. ps aux &gt; ps-aux-crashed.log
13. sysrq+W
14. sysrq+E  wait for everything to terminate
15. sysrq+SUSB

Simplified way of the issue reproducing is starting kernel compilation
task and "apt-get update" in parallel.

REPRODUCIBILITY:

The issue is reproduced not stable [60% - 80%].  It is very important to
have proper environment for the issue reproducing.  The critical
conditions for successful reproducing:

(1) It should have big modified file by mmap() way.

(2) This file should have the count of dirty blocks are greater that
    several segments in size (for example, two or three) from time to time
    during processing.

(3) It should be intensive background activity of files modification
    in another thread.

INVESTIGATION:

First of all, it is possible to see that the reason of crash is not valid
page address:

  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_complete_write]:2100 bh-&gt;b_count 0, bh-&gt;b_blocknr 13895680, bh-&gt;b_size 13897727, bh-&gt;b_page 0000000000001a82
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_complete_write]:2101 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6783

Moreover, value of b_page (0x1a82) is 6786.  This value looks like segment
number.  And b_blocknr with b_size values look like block numbers.  So,
buffer_head's pointer points on not proper address value.

Detailed investigation of the issue is discovered such picture:

  [-----------------------------SEGMENT 6783-------------------------------]
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2310 nilfs_segctor_begin_construction
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2321 nilfs_segctor_collect
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2336 nilfs_segctor_assign
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2367 nilfs_segctor_update_segusage
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2371 nilfs_segctor_prepare_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2376 nilfs_add_checksums_on_logs
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2381 nilfs_segctor_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bio]:464 bio-&gt;bi_sector 111149024, segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6783

  [-----------------------------SEGMENT 6784-------------------------------]
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2310 nilfs_segctor_begin_construction
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2321 nilfs_segctor_collect
  NILFS [nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers]:782 bh-&gt;b_count 1, bh-&gt;b_page ffffea000709b000, page-&gt;index 0, i_ino 1033103, i_size 25165824
  NILFS [nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers]:783 bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff8802174a6798, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880221cffee8
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2336 nilfs_segctor_assign
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2367 nilfs_segctor_update_segusage
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2371 nilfs_segctor_prepare_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2376 nilfs_add_checksums_on_logs
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2381 nilfs_segctor_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:575 bh-&gt;b_count 1, bh-&gt;b_page ffffea000709b000, page-&gt;index 0, i_ino 1033103, i_size 25165824
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:576 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6784
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:577 bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff880218a0d5f8, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880218bcdf50
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bio]:464 bio-&gt;bi_sector 111150080, segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6784, segbuf-&gt;sb_nbio 0
  [----------] ditto
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bio]:464 bio-&gt;bi_sector 111164416, segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6784, segbuf-&gt;sb_nbio 15

  [-----------------------------SEGMENT 6785-------------------------------]
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2310 nilfs_segctor_begin_construction
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2321 nilfs_segctor_collect
  NILFS [nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers]:782 bh-&gt;b_count 2, bh-&gt;b_page ffffea000709b000, page-&gt;index 0, i_ino 1033103, i_size 25165824
  NILFS [nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers]:783 bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff880219277e80, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880221cffc88
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2367 nilfs_segctor_update_segusage
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2371 nilfs_segctor_prepare_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2376 nilfs_add_checksums_on_logs
  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2381 nilfs_segctor_write
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:575 bh-&gt;b_count 2, bh-&gt;b_page ffffea000709b000, page-&gt;index 0, i_ino 1033103, i_size 25165824
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:576 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6785
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh]:577 bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff880218a0d5f8, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880222cc7ee8
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bio]:464 bio-&gt;bi_sector 111165440, segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6785, segbuf-&gt;sb_nbio 0
  [----------] ditto
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_submit_bio]:464 bio-&gt;bi_sector 111177728, segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6785, segbuf-&gt;sb_nbio 12

  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_do_construct]:2399 nilfs_segctor_wait
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_wait]:676 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6783
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_wait]:676 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6784
  NILFS [nilfs_segbuf_wait]:676 segbuf-&gt;sb_segnum 6785

  NILFS [nilfs_segctor_complete_write]:2100 bh-&gt;b_count 0, bh-&gt;b_blocknr 13895680, bh-&gt;b_size 13897727, bh-&gt;b_page 0000000000001a82

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001a82
  IP: [&lt;ffffffffa024d0f2&gt;] nilfs_end_page_io+0x12/0xd0 [nilfs2]

Usually, for every segment we collect dirty files in list.  Then, dirty
blocks are gathered for every dirty file, prepared for write and
submitted by means of nilfs_segbuf_submit_bh() call.  Finally, it takes
place complete write phase after calling nilfs_end_bio_write() on the
block layer.  Buffers/pages are marked as not dirty on final phase and
processed files removed from the list of dirty files.

It is possible to see that we had three prepare_write and submit_bio
phases before segbuf_wait and complete_write phase.  Moreover, segments
compete between each other for dirty blocks because on every iteration
of segments processing dirty buffer_heads are added in several lists of
payload_buffers:

  [SEGMENT 6784]: bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff880218a0d5f8, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880218bcdf50
  [SEGMENT 6785]: bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.next ffff880218a0d5f8, bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers.prev ffff880222cc7ee8

The next pointer is the same but prev pointer has changed.  It means
that buffer_head has next pointer from one list but prev pointer from
another.  Such modification can be made several times.  And, finally, it
can be resulted in various issues: (1) segctor hanging, (2) segctor
crashing, (3) file system metadata corruption.

FIX:
This patch adds:

(1) setting of BH_Async_Write flag in nilfs_segctor_prepare_write()
    for every proccessed dirty block;

(2) checking of BH_Async_Write flag in
    nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() and
    nilfs_lookup_dirty_node_buffers();

(3) clearing of BH_Async_Write flag in nilfs_segctor_complete_write(),
    nilfs_abort_logs(), nilfs_forget_buffer(), nilfs_clear_dirty_page().

Reported-by: Jerome Poulin &lt;jeromepoulin@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anton Eliasson &lt;devel@antoneliasson.se&gt;
Cc: Paul Fertser &lt;fercerpav@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: ARAI Shun-ichi &lt;hermes@ceres.dti.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Piotr Szymaniak &lt;szarpaj@grubelek.pl&gt;
Cc: Juan Barry Manuel Canham &lt;Linux@riotingpacifist.net&gt;
Cc: Zahid Chowdhury &lt;zahid.chowdhury@starsolutions.com&gt;
Cc: Elmer Zhang &lt;freeboy6716@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kenneth Langga &lt;klangga@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: nilfs_clear_dirty_page() has not been separated
 from nilfs_clear_dirty_pages()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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