[PATCH] tmpfs: fix regression hang in fallocate undo

[PATCH] tmpfs: fix regression hang in fallocate undo

[Hugh Dickins]

The well-spotted fallocate undo fix is good in most cases, but not when
fallocate failed on the very first page.  index 0 then passes lend -1
to shmem_undo_range(), and that has two bad effects: (a) that it will
undo every fallocation throughout the file, unrestricted by the current
range; but more importantly (b) it can cause the undo to hang, because
lend -1 is treated as truncation, which makes it keep on retrying until
every page has gone, but those already fully instantiated will never go
away.  Big thank you to xfstests generic/269 which demonstrates this.

Fixes: b9b4bb26af01 ("tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
---

 mm/shmem.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- 4.7-rc6/mm/shmem.c	2016-06-26 22:02:27.543373427 -0700
+++ linux/mm/shmem.c	2016-07-10 15:19:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -2225,9 +2225,11 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file
 			error = shmem_getpage(inode, index, &page, SGP_FALLOC);
 		if (error) {
 			/* Remove the !PageUptodate pages we added */
-			shmem_undo_range(inode,
-				(loff_t)start << PAGE_SHIFT,
-				((loff_t)index << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1, true);
+			if (index > start) {
+				shmem_undo_range(inode,
+				    (loff_t)start << PAGE_SHIFT,
+				    ((loff_t)index << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1, true);
+			}
 			goto undone;
 		}
 

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