Patch "dax: prevent invalidation of mapped DAX entries" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    dax: prevent invalidation of mapped DAX entries

to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     dax-prevent-invalidation-of-mapped-dax-entries.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 4636e70bb0a8b871998b6841a2e4b205cf2bc863 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 15:46:47 -0700
Subject: dax: prevent invalidation of mapped DAX entries

From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>

commit 4636e70bb0a8b871998b6841a2e4b205cf2bc863 upstream.

Patch series "mm,dax: Fix data corruption due to mmap inconsistency",
v4.

This series fixes data corruption that can happen for DAX mounts when
page faults race with write(2) and as a result page tables get out of
sync with block mappings in the filesystem and thus data seen through
mmap is different from data seen through read(2).

The series passes testing with t_mmap_stale test program from Ross and
also other mmap related tests on DAX filesystem.

This patch (of 4):

dax_invalidate_mapping_entry() currently removes DAX exceptional entries
only if they are clean and unlocked.  This is done via:

  invalidate_mapping_pages()
    invalidate_exceptional_entry()
      dax_invalidate_mapping_entry()

However, for page cache pages removed in invalidate_mapping_pages()
there is an additional criteria which is that the page must not be
mapped.  This is noted in the comments above invalidate_mapping_pages()
and is checked in invalidate_inode_page().

For DAX entries this means that we can can end up in a situation where a
DAX exceptional entry, either a huge zero page or a regular DAX entry,
could end up mapped but without an associated radix tree entry.  This is
inconsistent with the rest of the DAX code and with what happens in the
page cache case.

We aren't able to unmap the DAX exceptional entry because according to
its comments invalidate_mapping_pages() isn't allowed to block, and
unmap_mapping_range() takes a write lock on the mapping->i_mmap_rwsem.

Since we essentially never have unmapped DAX entries to evict from the
radix tree, just remove dax_invalidate_mapping_entry().

Fixes: c6dcf52c23d2 ("mm: Invalidate DAX radix tree entries only if appropriate")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170510085419.27601-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/dax.c            |   29 -----------------------------
 include/linux/dax.h |    1 -
 mm/truncate.c       |    9 +++------
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -503,35 +503,6 @@ int dax_delete_mapping_entry(struct addr
 }
 
 /*
- * Invalidate exceptional DAX entry if easily possible. This handles DAX
- * entries for invalidate_inode_pages() so we evict the entry only if we can
- * do so without blocking.
- */
-int dax_invalidate_mapping_entry(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index)
-{
-	int ret = 0;
-	void *entry, **slot;
-	struct radix_tree_root *page_tree = &mapping->page_tree;
-
-	spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
-	entry = __radix_tree_lookup(page_tree, index, NULL, &slot);
-	if (!entry || !radix_tree_exceptional_entry(entry) ||
-	    slot_locked(mapping, slot))
-		goto out;
-	if (radix_tree_tag_get(page_tree, index, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY) ||
-	    radix_tree_tag_get(page_tree, index, PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE))
-		goto out;
-	radix_tree_delete(page_tree, index);
-	mapping->nrexceptional--;
-	ret = 1;
-out:
-	spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
-	if (ret)
-		dax_wake_mapping_entry_waiter(mapping, index, entry, true);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-/*
  * Invalidate exceptional DAX entry if it is clean.
  */
 int dax_invalidate_mapping_entry_sync(struct address_space *mapping,
--- a/include/linux/dax.h
+++ b/include/linux/dax.h
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ ssize_t dax_iomap_rw(struct kiocb *iocb,
 int dax_iomap_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
 			struct iomap_ops *ops);
 int dax_delete_mapping_entry(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index);
-int dax_invalidate_mapping_entry(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index);
 int dax_invalidate_mapping_entry_sync(struct address_space *mapping,
 				      pgoff_t index);
 void dax_wake_mapping_entry_waiter(struct address_space *mapping,
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -66,17 +66,14 @@ static void truncate_exceptional_entry(s
 
 /*
  * Invalidate exceptional entry if easily possible. This handles exceptional
- * entries for invalidate_inode_pages() so for DAX it evicts only unlocked and
- * clean entries.
+ * entries for invalidate_inode_pages().
  */
 static int invalidate_exceptional_entry(struct address_space *mapping,
 					pgoff_t index, void *entry)
 {
-	/* Handled by shmem itself */
-	if (shmem_mapping(mapping))
+	/* Handled by shmem itself, or for DAX we do nothing. */
+	if (shmem_mapping(mapping) || dax_mapping(mapping))
 		return 1;
-	if (dax_mapping(mapping))
-		return dax_invalidate_mapping_entry(mapping, index);
 	clear_shadow_entry(mapping, index, entry);
 	return 1;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.10/fs-block_dev-always-invalidate-cleancache-in-invalidate_bdev.patch
queue-4.10/dax-prevent-invalidation-of-mapped-dax-entries.patch
queue-4.10/mm-fix-data-corruption-due-to-stale-mmap-reads.patch