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<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2013-01-02T17:57:34+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2013-01-02T17:57:34+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "Various bug fixes for ext4.  Perhaps the most serious bug fixed is one
  which could cause file system corruptions when performing file punch
  operations."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: avoid hang when mounting non-journal filesystems with orphan list
  ext4: lock i_mutex when truncating orphan inodes
  ext4: do not try to write superblock on ro remount w/o journal
  ext4: include journal blocks in df overhead calcs
  ext4: remove unaligned AIO warning printk
  ext4: fix an incorrect comment about i_mutex
  ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer()
  ext4: split off ext4_journalled_invalidatepage()
  jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()
  ext4: check dioread_nolock on remount
  ext4: fix extent tree corruption caused by hole punch
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Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "Various bug fixes for ext4.  Perhaps the most serious bug fixed is one
  which could cause file system corruptions when performing file punch
  operations."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: avoid hang when mounting non-journal filesystems with orphan list
  ext4: lock i_mutex when truncating orphan inodes
  ext4: do not try to write superblock on ro remount w/o journal
  ext4: include journal blocks in df overhead calcs
  ext4: remove unaligned AIO warning printk
  ext4: fix an incorrect comment about i_mutex
  ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer()
  ext4: split off ext4_journalled_invalidatepage()
  jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()
  ext4: check dioread_nolock on remount
  ext4: fix extent tree corruption caused by hole punch
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<title>ext4: avoid hang when mounting non-journal filesystems with orphan list</title>
<updated>2012-12-27T06:42:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-27T06:42:50+00:00</published>
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When trying to mount a file system which does not contain a journal,
but which does have a orphan list containing an inode which needs to
be truncated, the mount call with hang forever in
ext4_orphan_cleanup() because ext4_orphan_del() will return
immediately without removing the inode from the orphan list, leading
to an uninterruptible loop in kernel code which will busy out one of
the CPU's on the system.

This can be trivially reproduced by trying to mount the file system
found in tests/f_orphan_extents_inode/image.gz from the e2fsprogs
source tree.  If a malicious user were to put this on a USB stick, and
mount it on a Linux desktop which has automatic mounts enabled, this
could be considered a potential denial of service attack.  (Not a big
deal in practice, but professional paranoids worry about such things,
and have even been known to allocate CVE numbers for such problems.)

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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When trying to mount a file system which does not contain a journal,
but which does have a orphan list containing an inode which needs to
be truncated, the mount call with hang forever in
ext4_orphan_cleanup() because ext4_orphan_del() will return
immediately without removing the inode from the orphan list, leading
to an uninterruptible loop in kernel code which will busy out one of
the CPU's on the system.

This can be trivially reproduced by trying to mount the file system
found in tests/f_orphan_extents_inode/image.gz from the e2fsprogs
source tree.  If a malicious user were to put this on a USB stick, and
mount it on a Linux desktop which has automatic mounts enabled, this
could be considered a potential denial of service attack.  (Not a big
deal in practice, but professional paranoids worry about such things,
and have even been known to allocate CVE numbers for such problems.)

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<title>ext4: lock i_mutex when truncating orphan inodes</title>
<updated>2012-12-27T06:42:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2012-12-27T06:42:48+00:00</published>
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Commit c278531d39 added a warning when ext4_flush_unwritten_io() is
called without i_mutex being taken.  It had previously not been taken
during orphan cleanup since races weren't possible at that point in
the mount process, but as a result of this c278531d39, we will now see
a kernel WARN_ON in this case.  Take the i_mutex in
ext4_orphan_cleanup() to suppress this warning.

Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov &lt;a.beregalov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Commit c278531d39 added a warning when ext4_flush_unwritten_io() is
called without i_mutex being taken.  It had previously not been taken
during orphan cleanup since races weren't possible at that point in
the mount process, but as a result of this c278531d39, we will now see
a kernel WARN_ON in this case.  Take the i_mutex in
ext4_orphan_cleanup() to suppress this warning.

Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov &lt;a.beregalov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<title>ext4: do not try to write superblock on ro remount w/o journal</title>
<updated>2012-12-25T19:08:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Tokarev</name>
<email>mjt@tls.msk.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-25T19:08:16+00:00</published>
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When a journal-less ext4 filesystem is mounted on a read-only block
device (blockdev --setro will do), each remount (for other, unrelated,
flags, like suid=&gt;nosuid etc) results in a series of scary messages
from kernel telling about I/O errors on the device.

This is becauese of the following code ext4_remount():

       if (sbi-&gt;s_journal == NULL)
                ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);

at the end of remount procedure, which forces writing (flushing) of
a superblock regardless whenever it is dirty or not, if the filesystem
is readonly or not, and whenever the device itself is readonly or not.

We only need call ext4_commit_super when the file system had been
previously mounted read/write.

Thanks to Eric Sandeen for help in diagnosing this issue.

Signed-off-By: Michael Tokarev &lt;mjt@tls.msk.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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When a journal-less ext4 filesystem is mounted on a read-only block
device (blockdev --setro will do), each remount (for other, unrelated,
flags, like suid=&gt;nosuid etc) results in a series of scary messages
from kernel telling about I/O errors on the device.

This is becauese of the following code ext4_remount():

       if (sbi-&gt;s_journal == NULL)
                ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);

at the end of remount procedure, which forces writing (flushing) of
a superblock regardless whenever it is dirty or not, if the filesystem
is readonly or not, and whenever the device itself is readonly or not.

We only need call ext4_commit_super when the file system had been
previously mounted read/write.

Thanks to Eric Sandeen for help in diagnosing this issue.

Signed-off-By: Michael Tokarev &lt;mjt@tls.msk.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<title>ext4: include journal blocks in df overhead calcs</title>
<updated>2012-12-25T18:56:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-25T18:56:01+00:00</published>
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To more accurately calculate overhead for "bsd" style
df reporting, we should count the journal blocks as
overhead as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
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To more accurately calculate overhead for "bsd" style
df reporting, we should count the journal blocks as
overhead as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>ext4: remove unaligned AIO warning printk</title>
<updated>2012-12-25T18:33:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-25T18:33:13+00:00</published>
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Although I put this in, I now think it was a bad decision.  For most
users, there is very little to be done in this case.  They get the
message, once per day, with no real context or proposed action.  TBH,
it generates support calls when it probably does not need to; the
message sounds more dire than the situation really is.

Just nuke it.  Normal investigation via blktrace or whatnot can
reveal poor IO patterns if bad performance is encountered.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Although I put this in, I now think it was a bad decision.  For most
users, there is very little to be done in this case.  They get the
message, once per day, with no real context or proposed action.  TBH,
it generates support calls when it probably does not need to; the
message sounds more dire than the situation really is.

Just nuke it.  Normal investigation via blktrace or whatnot can
reveal poor IO patterns if bad performance is encountered.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: fix an incorrect comment about i_mutex</title>
<updated>2012-12-25T18:31:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-25T18:31:52+00:00</published>
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i_mutex is not held when -&gt;sync_file is called.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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i_mutex is not held when -&gt;sync_file is called.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer()</title>
<updated>2012-12-25T18:29:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-25T18:29:52+00:00</published>
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We cannot wait for transaction commit in journal_unmap_buffer()
because we hold page lock which ranks below transaction start.  We
solve the issue by bailing out of journal_unmap_buffer() and
jbd2_journal_invalidatepage() with -EBUSY.  Caller is then responsible
for waiting for transaction commit to finish and try invalidation
again. Since the issue can happen only for page stradding i_size, it
is simple enough to manually call jbd2_journal_invalidatepage() for
such page from ext4_setattr(), check the return value and wait if
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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We cannot wait for transaction commit in journal_unmap_buffer()
because we hold page lock which ranks below transaction start.  We
solve the issue by bailing out of journal_unmap_buffer() and
jbd2_journal_invalidatepage() with -EBUSY.  Caller is then responsible
for waiting for transaction commit to finish and try invalidation
again. Since the issue can happen only for page stradding i_size, it
is simple enough to manually call jbd2_journal_invalidatepage() for
such page from ext4_setattr(), check the return value and wait if
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: split off ext4_journalled_invalidatepage()</title>
<updated>2012-12-25T18:28:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-25T18:28:54+00:00</published>
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In data=journal mode we don't need delalloc or DIO handling in invalidatepage
and similarly in other modes we don't need the journal handling. So split
invalidatepage implementations.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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In data=journal mode we don't need delalloc or DIO handling in invalidatepage
and similarly in other modes we don't need the journal handling. So split
invalidatepage implementations.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: check dioread_nolock on remount</title>
<updated>2012-12-20T05:07:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-20T05:07:18+00:00</published>
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Currently we allow enabling dioread_nolock mount option on remount for
filesystems where blocksize &lt; PAGE_CACHE_SIZE.  This isn't really
supported so fix the bug by moving the check for blocksize !=
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE into parse_options(). Change the original PAGE_SIZE to
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE along the way because that's what we are really
interested in.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Currently we allow enabling dioread_nolock mount option on remount for
filesystems where blocksize &lt; PAGE_CACHE_SIZE.  This isn't really
supported so fix the bug by moving the check for blocksize !=
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE into parse_options(). Change the original PAGE_SIZE to
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE along the way because that's what we are really
interested in.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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