Hole puching currently evicts pages from page cache and then goes on to remove blocks from the inode. This happens under both XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL and XFS_MMAPLOCK_EXCL which provides appropriate serialization with racing reads or page faults. However there is currently nothing that prevents readahead triggered by fadvise() or madvise() from racing with the hole punch and instantiating page cache page after hole punching has evicted page cache in xfs_flush_unmap_range() but before it has removed blocks from the inode. This page cache page will be mapping soon to be freed block and that can lead to returning stale data to userspace or even filesystem corruption.
Fix the problem by protecting handling of readahead requests by XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED similarly as we protect reads.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAOQ4uxjQNmxqmtA_VbYW0Su9rKRk2zobJmahc... Reported-by: Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz --- fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c index 28101bbc0b78..d952d5962e93 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ #include <linux/falloc.h> #include <linux/backing-dev.h> #include <linux/mman.h> +#include <linux/fadvise.h>
static const struct vm_operations_struct xfs_file_vm_ops;
@@ -933,6 +934,30 @@ xfs_file_fallocate( return error; }
+STATIC int +xfs_file_fadvise( + struct file *file, + loff_t start, + loff_t end, + int advice) +{ + struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(file_inode(file)); + int ret; + int lockflags = 0; + + /* + * Operations creating pages in page cache need protection from hole + * punching and similar ops + */ + if (advice == POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) { + lockflags = XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED; + xfs_ilock(ip, lockflags); + } + ret = generic_fadvise(file, start, end, advice); + if (lockflags) + xfs_iunlock(ip, lockflags); + return ret; +}
STATIC loff_t xfs_file_remap_range( @@ -1232,6 +1257,7 @@ const struct file_operations xfs_file_operations = { .fsync = xfs_file_fsync, .get_unmapped_area = thp_get_unmapped_area, .fallocate = xfs_file_fallocate, + .fadvise = xfs_file_fadvise, .remap_file_range = xfs_file_remap_range, };