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@ 2016-09-05  1:22 wang.guang55
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From: wang.guang55 @ 2016-09-05  1:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tytso; +Cc: linux-ext4

[PATCH]ext4: bugfix for mmaped pages in mpage_release_unused_pages()

ext4: bugfix for mmaped pages  in mpage_release_unused_pages()

Pages clear buffers after ext4 delayed block allocation failed,
However, it does not clean its pte_dirty flag.
if the pages unmap ,in cording to the pte_dirty ,
unmap_page_range may try to call __set_page_dirty,

which may lead to the bugon at 
mpage_prepare_extent_to_map:head = page_buffers(page);.

This patch just call clear_page_dirty_for_io to clean pte_dirty 
at mpage_release_unused_pages for pages mmaped. 

 
Steps to reproduce the bug:
(1) mmap a file in ext4
addr = (char *)mmap(NULL, 4096, 
        PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
 memset(addr, 'i', 4096);
(2) return EIO at 
ext4_writepages->mpage_map_and_submit_extent->mpage_map_one_extent 
Cause the log:
                ext4_msg(sb, KERN_CRIT,
                        "Delayed block allocation failed for "
                        "inode %lu at logical offset %llu with"
                        " max blocks %u with error %d",
                        inode->i_ino,
                        (unsigned long long)map->m_lblk,
                        (unsigned)map->m_len, -err);

(3)Unmap the addr cause warning at 
__set_page_dirty:WARN_ON_ONCE(warn && !PageUptodate(page));
(4) wait for a minute,then bugon happen.

From 3eab887a55424fc2c27553b7bfe32330df83f7b8
From: wangguang <wangguang03@zte.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:54:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] bugfix for mmaped pages in mpage_release_unused_pages()
Signed-off-by: wangguang <wangguang03@zte.com>
--- old/fs/ext4/inode.c 2016-08-29 12:15:25.150764447 -0400
+++ new/fs/ext4/inode.c 2016-08-29 13:01:58.683559198 -0400
@@ -1649,6 +1649,8 @@ static void mpage_release_unused_pages(s
                        BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
                        BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
                        if (invalidate) {
+                               if (page_mapped(page))
+                                       clear_page_dirty_for_io(page);
                                block_invalidatepage(page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
                                ClearPageUptodate(page);
                        }





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