linux-stable.git/mm/page-writeback.c, branch linux-3.16.y

writeback: use |1 instead of +1 to protect against div by zero

2015-05-20T12:25:57+00:00

commit 464d1387acb94dc43ba772b35242345e3d2ead1b upstream.

mm/page-writeback.c has several places where 1 is added to the divisor
to prevent division by zero exceptions; however, if the original
divisor is equivalent to -1, adding 1 leads to division by zero.

There are three places where +1 is used for this purpose - one in
pos_ratio_polynom() and two in bdi_position_ratio().  The second one
in bdi_position_ratio() actually triggered div-by-zero oops on a
machine running a 3.10 kernel.  The divisor is

  x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1 == span + 1

span is confirmed to be (u32)-1.  It isn't clear how it ended up that
but it could be from write bandwidth calculation underflow fixed by
c72efb658f7c ("writeback: fix possible underflow in write bandwidth
calculation").

At any rate, +1 isn't a proper protection against div-by-zero.  This
patch converts all +1 protections to |1.  Note that
bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit() was already using |1 before this patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

writeback: fix possible underflow in write bandwidth calculation

2015-04-10T09:04:08+00:00

commit c72efb658f7c8b27ca3d0efb5cfd5ded9fcac89e upstream.

From 1ebf33901ecc75d9496862dceb1ef0377980587c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo 
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:08:19 -0400

2f800fbd777b ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty")
introduced account_page_redirty() which reverts stat updates for a
redirtied page, making BDI_DIRTIED no longer monotonically increasing.

bdi_update_write_bandwidth() uses the delta in BDI_DIRTIED as the
basis for bandwidth calculation.  While unlikely, since the above
patch, the newer value may be lower than the recorded past value and
nunderflow the bandwidth calculation leading to a wild result.

Fix it by subtracing min of the old and new values when calculating
delta.  AFAIK, there hasn't been any report of it happening but the
resulting erratic behavior would be non-critical and temporary, so
it's possible that the issue is happening without being reported.  The
risk of the fix is very low, so tagged for -stable.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Fixes: 2f800fbd777b ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()

2015-04-10T09:03:53+00:00

commit 7d70e15480c0450d2bfafaad338a32e884fc215e upstream.

global_update_bandwidth() uses static variable update_time as the
timestamp for the last update but forgets to initialize it to
INITIALIZE_JIFFIES.

This means that global_dirty_limit will be 5 mins into the future on
32bit and some large amount jiffies into the past on 64bit.  This
isn't critical as the only effect is that global_dirty_limit won't be
updated for the first 5 mins after booting on 32bit machines,
especially given the auxiliary nature of global_dirty_limit's role -
protecting against global dirty threshold's sudden dips; however, it
does lead to unintended suboptimal behavior.  Fix it.

Fixes: c42843f2f0bb ("writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

mm: protect set_page_dirty() from ongoing truncation

2015-01-16T14:34:32+00:00

commit 2d6d7f98284648c5ed113fe22a132148950b140f upstream.

Tejun, while reviewing the code, spotted the following race condition
between the dirtying and truncation of a page:

__set_page_dirty_nobuffers()       __delete_from_page_cache()
  if (TestSetPageDirty(page))
                                     page->mapping = NULL
				     if (PageDirty())
				       dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
				       dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
    if (page->mapping)
      account_page_dirtied(page)
        __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
	__inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);

which results in an imbalance of NR_FILE_DIRTY and BDI_RECLAIMABLE.

Dirtiers usually lock out truncation, either by holding the page lock
directly, or in case of zap_pte_range(), by pinning the mapcount with
the page table lock held.  The notable exception to this rule, though,
is do_wp_page(), for which this race exists.  However, do_wp_page()
already waits for a locked page to unlock before setting the dirty bit,
in order to prevent a race where clear_page_dirty() misses the page bit
in the presence of dirty ptes.  Upgrade that wait to a fully locked
set_page_dirty() to also cover the situation explained above.

Afterwards, the code in set_page_dirty() dealing with a truncation race
is no longer needed.  Remove it.

Reported-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in bdi_dirty_limits()

2014-07-31T00:16:13+00:00

Under memory pressure, it is possible for dirty_thresh, calculated by
global_dirty_limits() in balance_dirty_pages(), to equal zero.  Then, if
strictlimit is true, bdi_dirty_limits() tries to resolve the proportion:

  bdi_bg_thresh : bdi_thresh = background_thresh : dirty_thresh

by dividing by zero.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2014-06-08T20:03:35+00:00

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Clean ups and miscellaneous bug fixes, in particular for the new
  collapse_range and zero_range fallocate functions.  In addition,
  improve the scalability of adding and remove inodes from the orphan
  list"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
  ext4: handle symlink properly with inline_data
  ext4: fix wrong assert in ext4_mb_normalize_request()
  ext4: fix zeroing of page during writeback
  ext4: remove unused local variable "stored" from ext4_readdir(...)
  ext4: fix ZERO_RANGE test failure in data journalling
  ext4: reduce contention on s_orphan_lock
  ext4: use sbi in ext4_orphan_{add|del}()
  ext4: use EXT_MAX_BLOCKS in ext4_es_can_be_merged()
  ext4: add missing BUFFER_TRACE before ext4_journal_get_write_access
  ext4: remove unnecessary double parentheses
  ext4: do not destroy ext4_groupinfo_caches if ext4_mb_init() fails
  ext4: make local functions static
  ext4: fix block bitmap validation when bigalloc, ^flex_bg
  ext4: fix block bitmap initialization under sparse_super2
  ext4: find the group descriptors on a 1k-block bigalloc,meta_bg filesystem
  ext4: avoid unneeded lookup when xattr name is invalid
  ext4: fix data integrity sync in ordered mode
  ext4: remove obsoleted check
  ext4: add a new spinlock i_raw_lock to protect the ext4's raw inode
  ext4: fix locking for O_APPEND writes
  ...

mm: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table

2014-06-06T23:08:16+00:00

This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page-writeback.c: remove outdated comment

2014-06-04T23:54:13+00:00

There is an orphaned prehistoric comment , which used to be against
get_dirty_limits(), the dawn of global_dirtyable_memory().

Back then, the implementation of get_dirty_limits() is complicated and
full of magic numbers, so this comment is necessary.  But we now use the
clear and neat global_dirtyable_memory(), which renders this comment
ambiguous and useless.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: replace __get_cpu_var uses with this_cpu_ptr

2014-06-04T23:54:03+00:00

Replace places where __get_cpu_var() is used for an address calculation
with this_cpu_ptr().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext4: fix data integrity sync in ordered mode

2014-05-12T12:12:25+00:00

When we perform a data integrity sync we tag all the dirty pages with
PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE at start of ext4_da_writepages.  Later we check
for this tag in write_cache_pages_da and creates a struct
mpage_da_data containing contiguously indexed pages tagged with this
tag and sync these pages with a call to mpage_da_map_and_submit.  This
process is done in while loop until all the PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE
pages are synced. We also do journal start and stop in each iteration.
journal_stop could initiate journal commit which would call
ext4_writepage which in turn will call ext4_bio_write_page even for
delayed OR unwritten buffers. When ext4_bio_write_page is called for
such buffers, even though it does not sync them but it clears the
PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE of the corresponding page and hence these pages
are also not synced by the currently running data integrity sync. We
will end up with dirty pages although sync is completed.

This could cause a potential data loss when the sync call is followed
by a truncate_pagecache call, which is exactly the case in
collapse_range.  (It will cause generic/127 failure in xfstests)

To avoid this issue, we can use set_page_writeback_keepwrite instead of
set_page_writeback, which doesn't clear TOWRITE tag.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara