Re: More filesystem need this fix (xfs: use MMAPLOCK around filemap_map_pages())

[Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>]

On 17.09.20 г. 4:44 ч., Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 05:58:51PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>> On Sat 12-09-20 09:19:11, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 8:21 AM Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:

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> 
> So....
> 
> P0					p1
> 
> hole punch starts
>   takes XFS_MMAPLOCK_EXCL
>   truncate_pagecache_range()
>     unmap_mapping_range(start, end)
>       <clears ptes>
> 					<read fault>
> 					do_fault_around()
> 					  ->map_pages
> 					    filemap_map_pages()
> 					      page mapping valid,
> 					      page is up to date
> 					      maps PTEs
> 					<fault done>
>     truncate_inode_pages_range()
>       truncate_cleanup_page(page)
>         invalidates page
>       delete_from_page_cache_batch(page)
>         frees page
> 					<pte now points to a freed page>
> 
> That doesn't seem good to me.
> 
> Sure, maybe the page hasn't been freed back to the free lists
> because of elevated refcounts. But it's been released by the
> filesystem and not longer in the page cache so nothing good can come
> of this situation...
> 
> AFAICT, this race condition exists for the truncate case as well
> as filemap_map_pages() doesn't have a "page beyond inode size" check
> in it. 

(It's not relevant to the discussion at hand but for the sake of
completeness):

It does have a check:

 max_idx = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE);
 if (page->index >= max_idx)
      goto unlock;


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