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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/ext4, branch v3.0.30</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ext4: fix endianness breakage in ext4_split_extent_at()</title>
<updated>2012-04-27T16:51:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-13T00:32:25+00:00</published>
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commit af1584f570b19b0285e4402a0b54731495d31784 upstream.

-&gt;ee_len is __le16, so assigning cpu_to_le32() to it is going to do
Bad Things(tm) on big-endian hosts...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ted Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit af1584f570b19b0285e4402a0b54731495d31784 upstream.

-&gt;ee_len is __le16, so assigning cpu_to_le32() to it is going to do
Bad Things(tm) on big-endian hosts...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ted Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ext4: check for zero length extent</title>
<updated>2012-04-02T16:27:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-12T03:30:16+00:00</published>
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commit 31d4f3a2f3c73f279ff96a7135d7202ef6833f12 upstream.

Explicitly test for an extent whose length is zero, and flag that as a
corrupted extent.

This avoids a kernel BUG_ON assertion failure.

Tested: Without this patch, the file system image found in
tests/f_ext_zero_len/image.gz in the latest e2fsprogs sources causes a
kernel panic.  With this patch, an ext4 file system error is noted
instead, and the file system is marked as being corrupted.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42859

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 31d4f3a2f3c73f279ff96a7135d7202ef6833f12 upstream.

Explicitly test for an extent whose length is zero, and flag that as a
corrupted extent.

This avoids a kernel BUG_ON assertion failure.

Tested: Without this patch, the file system image found in
tests/f_ext_zero_len/image.gz in the latest e2fsprogs sources causes a
kernel panic.  With this patch, an ext4 file system error is noted
instead, and the file system is marked as being corrupted.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42859

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ext4: ignore EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA flag with delalloc</title>
<updated>2012-04-02T16:27:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Czerner</name>
<email>lczerner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-20T22:53:00+00:00</published>
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commit 3d2b158262826e8b75bbbfb7b97010838dd92ac7 upstream.

Ext4 does not support data journalling with delayed allocation enabled.
We even do not allow to mount the file system with delayed allocation
and data journalling enabled, however it can be set via FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
so we can hit the inode with EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA set even on file
system mounted with delayed allocation (default) and that's where
problem arises. The easies way to reproduce this problem is with the
following set of commands:

 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd
 mount /dev/sdd /mnt/test1
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test1/file bs=1M count=4
 chattr +j /mnt/test1/file
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test1/file bs=1M count=4 conv=notrunc
 chattr -j /mnt/test1/file

Additionally it can be reproduced quite reliably with xfstests 272 and
269. In fact the above reproducer is a part of test 272.

To fix this we should ignore the EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA inode flag if
the file system is mounted with delayed allocation. This can be easily
done by fixing ext4_should_*_data() functions do ignore data journal
flag when delalloc is set (suggested by Ted). We also have to set the
appropriate address space operations for the inode (again, ignoring data
journal flag if delalloc enabled).

Additionally this commit introduces ext4_inode_journal_mode() function
because ext4_should_*_data() has already had a lot of common code and
this change is putting it all into one function so it is easier to
read.

Successfully tested with xfstests in following configurations:

delalloc + data=ordered
delalloc + data=writeback
data=journal
nodelalloc + data=ordered
nodelalloc + data=writeback
nodelalloc + data=journal

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3d2b158262826e8b75bbbfb7b97010838dd92ac7 upstream.

Ext4 does not support data journalling with delayed allocation enabled.
We even do not allow to mount the file system with delayed allocation
and data journalling enabled, however it can be set via FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
so we can hit the inode with EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA set even on file
system mounted with delayed allocation (default) and that's where
problem arises. The easies way to reproduce this problem is with the
following set of commands:

 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd
 mount /dev/sdd /mnt/test1
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test1/file bs=1M count=4
 chattr +j /mnt/test1/file
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test1/file bs=1M count=4 conv=notrunc
 chattr -j /mnt/test1/file

Additionally it can be reproduced quite reliably with xfstests 272 and
269. In fact the above reproducer is a part of test 272.

To fix this we should ignore the EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA inode flag if
the file system is mounted with delayed allocation. This can be easily
done by fixing ext4_should_*_data() functions do ignore data journal
flag when delalloc is set (suggested by Ted). We also have to set the
appropriate address space operations for the inode (again, ignoring data
journal flag if delalloc enabled).

Additionally this commit introduces ext4_inode_journal_mode() function
because ext4_should_*_data() has already had a lot of common code and
this change is putting it all into one function so it is easier to
read.

Successfully tested with xfstests in following configurations:

delalloc + data=ordered
delalloc + data=writeback
data=journal
nodelalloc + data=ordered
nodelalloc + data=writeback
nodelalloc + data=journal

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ext4: flush any pending end_io requests before DIO reads w/dioread_nolock</title>
<updated>2012-04-02T16:27:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiaying Zhang</name>
<email>jiayingz@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-19T23:13:32+00:00</published>
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commit dccaf33fa37a1bc5d651baeb3bfeb6becb86597b upstream.

(backported to 3.0 by mjt)

There is a race between ext4 buffer write and direct_IO read with
dioread_nolock mount option enabled. The problem is that we clear
PageWriteback flag during end_io time but will do
uninitialized-to-initialized extent conversion later with dioread_nolock.
If an O_direct read request comes in during this period, ext4 will return
zero instead of the recently written data.

This patch checks whether there are any pending uninitialized-to-initialized
extent conversion requests before doing O_direct read to close the race.
Note that this is just a bandaid fix. The fundamental issue is that we
clear PageWriteback flag before we really complete an IO, which is
problem-prone. To fix the fundamental issue, we may need to implement an
extent tree cache that we can use to look up pending to-be-converted extents.

Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang &lt;jiayingz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev &lt;mjt@tls.msk.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit dccaf33fa37a1bc5d651baeb3bfeb6becb86597b upstream.

(backported to 3.0 by mjt)

There is a race between ext4 buffer write and direct_IO read with
dioread_nolock mount option enabled. The problem is that we clear
PageWriteback flag during end_io time but will do
uninitialized-to-initialized extent conversion later with dioread_nolock.
If an O_direct read request comes in during this period, ext4 will return
zero instead of the recently written data.

This patch checks whether there are any pending uninitialized-to-initialized
extent conversion requests before doing O_direct read to close the race.
Note that this is just a bandaid fix. The fundamental issue is that we
clear PageWriteback flag before we really complete an IO, which is
problem-prone. To fix the fundamental issue, we may need to implement an
extent tree cache that we can use to look up pending to-be-converted extents.

Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang &lt;jiayingz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev &lt;mjt@tls.msk.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix undefined behavior in ext4_fill_flex_info()</title>
<updated>2012-01-26T01:24:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xi Wang</name>
<email>xi.wang@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-10T16:51:10+00:00</published>
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commit d50f2ab6f050311dbf7b8f5501b25f0bf64a439b upstream.

Commit 503358ae01b70ce6909d19dd01287093f6b6271c ("ext4: avoid divide by
zero when trying to mount a corrupted file system") fixes CVE-2009-4307
by performing a sanity check on s_log_groups_per_flex, since it can be
set to a bogus value by an attacker.

	sbi-&gt;s_log_groups_per_flex = sbi-&gt;s_es-&gt;s_log_groups_per_flex;
	groups_per_flex = 1 &lt;&lt; sbi-&gt;s_log_groups_per_flex;

	if (groups_per_flex &lt; 2) { ... }

This patch fixes two potential issues in the previous commit.

1) The sanity check might only work on architectures like PowerPC.
On x86, 5 bits are used for the shifting amount.  That means, given a
large s_log_groups_per_flex value like 36, groups_per_flex = 1 &lt;&lt; 36
is essentially 1 &lt;&lt; 4 = 16, rather than 0.  This will bypass the check,
leaving s_log_groups_per_flex and groups_per_flex inconsistent.

2) The sanity check relies on undefined behavior, i.e., oversized shift.
A standard-confirming C compiler could rewrite the check in unexpected
ways.  Consider the following equivalent form, assuming groups_per_flex
is unsigned for simplicity.

	groups_per_flex = 1 &lt;&lt; sbi-&gt;s_log_groups_per_flex;
	if (groups_per_flex == 0 || groups_per_flex == 1) {

We compile the code snippet using Clang 3.0 and GCC 4.6.  Clang will
completely optimize away the check groups_per_flex == 0, leaving the
patched code as vulnerable as the original.  GCC keeps the check, but
there is no guarantee that future versions will do the same.

Signed-off-by: Xi Wang &lt;xi.wang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit d50f2ab6f050311dbf7b8f5501b25f0bf64a439b upstream.

Commit 503358ae01b70ce6909d19dd01287093f6b6271c ("ext4: avoid divide by
zero when trying to mount a corrupted file system") fixes CVE-2009-4307
by performing a sanity check on s_log_groups_per_flex, since it can be
set to a bogus value by an attacker.

	sbi-&gt;s_log_groups_per_flex = sbi-&gt;s_es-&gt;s_log_groups_per_flex;
	groups_per_flex = 1 &lt;&lt; sbi-&gt;s_log_groups_per_flex;

	if (groups_per_flex &lt; 2) { ... }

This patch fixes two potential issues in the previous commit.

1) The sanity check might only work on architectures like PowerPC.
On x86, 5 bits are used for the shifting amount.  That means, given a
large s_log_groups_per_flex value like 36, groups_per_flex = 1 &lt;&lt; 36
is essentially 1 &lt;&lt; 4 = 16, rather than 0.  This will bypass the check,
leaving s_log_groups_per_flex and groups_per_flex inconsistent.

2) The sanity check relies on undefined behavior, i.e., oversized shift.
A standard-confirming C compiler could rewrite the check in unexpected
ways.  Consider the following equivalent form, assuming groups_per_flex
is unsigned for simplicity.

	groups_per_flex = 1 &lt;&lt; sbi-&gt;s_log_groups_per_flex;
	if (groups_per_flex == 0 || groups_per_flex == 1) {

We compile the code snippet using Clang 3.0 and GCC 4.6.  Clang will
completely optimize away the check groups_per_flex == 0, leaving the
patched code as vulnerable as the original.  GCC keeps the check, but
there is no guarantee that future versions will do the same.

Signed-off-by: Xi Wang &lt;xi.wang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ext4: handle EOF correctly in ext4_bio_write_page()</title>
<updated>2011-12-21T20:57:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yongqiang Yang</name>
<email>xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-14T03:29:12+00:00</published>
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commit 5a0dc7365c240795bf190766eba7a27600be3b3e upstream.

We need to zero out part of a page which beyond EOF before setting uptodate,
otherwise, mapread or write will see non-zero data beyond EOF.

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang &lt;xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 5a0dc7365c240795bf190766eba7a27600be3b3e upstream.

We need to zero out part of a page which beyond EOF before setting uptodate,
otherwise, mapread or write will see non-zero data beyond EOF.

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang &lt;xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: avoid potential hang in mpage_submit_io() when blocksize &lt; pagesize</title>
<updated>2011-12-21T20:57:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yongqiang Yang</name>
<email>xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-14T02:51:55+00:00</published>
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commit 13a79a4741d37fda2fbafb953f0f301dc007928f upstream.

If there is an unwritten but clean buffer in a page and there is a
dirty buffer after the buffer, then mpage_submit_io does not write the
dirty buffer out.  As a result, da_writepages loops forever.

This patch fixes the problem by checking dirty flag.

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang &lt;xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 13a79a4741d37fda2fbafb953f0f301dc007928f upstream.

If there is an unwritten but clean buffer in a page and there is a
dirty buffer after the buffer, then mpage_submit_io does not write the
dirty buffer out.  As a result, da_writepages loops forever.

This patch fixes the problem by checking dirty flag.

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang &lt;xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ext4: avoid hangs in ext4_da_should_update_i_disksize()</title>
<updated>2011-12-21T20:57:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-14T02:41:15+00:00</published>
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commit ea51d132dbf9b00063169c1159bee253d9649224 upstream.

If the pte mapping in generic_perform_write() is unmapped between
iov_iter_fault_in_readable() and iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(), the
"copied" parameter to -&gt;end_write can be zero. ext4 couldn't cope with
it with delayed allocations enabled. This skips the i_disksize
enlargement logic if copied is zero and no new data was appeneded to
the inode.

 gdb&gt; bt
 #0  0xffffffff811afe80 in ext4_da_should_update_i_disksize (file=0xffff88003f606a80, mapping=0xffff88001d3824e0, pos=0x1\
 08000, len=0x1000, copied=0x0, page=0xffffea0000d792e8, fsdata=0x0) at fs/ext4/inode.c:2467
 #1  ext4_da_write_end (file=0xffff88003f606a80, mapping=0xffff88001d3824e0, pos=0x108000, len=0x1000, copied=0x0, page=0\
 xffffea0000d792e8, fsdata=0x0) at fs/ext4/inode.c:2512
 #2  0xffffffff810d97f1 in generic_perform_write (iocb=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, iov=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, nr_segs=&lt;value o\
 ptimized out&gt;, pos=0x108000, ppos=0xffff88001e26be40, count=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, written=0x0) at mm/filemap.c:2440
 #3  generic_file_buffered_write (iocb=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, iov=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, nr_segs=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, p\
 os=0x108000, ppos=0xffff88001e26be40, count=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, written=0x0) at mm/filemap.c:2482
 #4  0xffffffff810db5d1 in __generic_file_aio_write (iocb=0xffff88001e26bde8, iov=0xffff88001e26bec8, nr_segs=0x1, ppos=0\
 xffff88001e26be40) at mm/filemap.c:2600
 #5  0xffffffff810db853 in generic_file_aio_write (iocb=0xffff88001e26bde8, iov=0xffff88001e26bec8, nr_segs=&lt;value optimi\
 zed out&gt;, pos=&lt;value optimized out&gt;) at mm/filemap.c:2632
 #6  0xffffffff811a71aa in ext4_file_write (iocb=0xffff88001e26bde8, iov=0xffff88001e26bec8, nr_segs=0x1, pos=0x108000) a\
 t fs/ext4/file.c:136
 #7  0xffffffff811375aa in do_sync_write (filp=0xffff88003f606a80, buf=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, len=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, \
 ppos=0xffff88001e26bf48) at fs/read_write.c:406
 #8  0xffffffff81137e56 in vfs_write (file=0xffff88003f606a80, buf=0x1ec2960 &lt;Address 0x1ec2960 out of bounds&gt;, count=0x4\
 000, pos=0xffff88001e26bf48) at fs/read_write.c:435
 #9  0xffffffff8113816c in sys_write (fd=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, buf=0x1ec2960 &lt;Address 0x1ec2960 out of bounds&gt;, count=0x\
 4000) at fs/read_write.c:487
 #10 &lt;signal handler called&gt;
 #11 0x00007f120077a390 in __brk_reservation_fn_dmi_alloc__ ()
 #12 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
 gdb&gt; print offset
 $22 = 0xffffffffffffffff
 gdb&gt; print idx
 $23 = 0xffffffff
 gdb&gt; print inode-&gt;i_blkbits
 $24 = 0xc
 gdb&gt; up
 #1  ext4_da_write_end (file=0xffff88003f606a80, mapping=0xffff88001d3824e0, pos=0x108000, len=0x1000, copied=0x0, page=0\
 xffffea0000d792e8, fsdata=0x0) at fs/ext4/inode.c:2512
 2512                    if (ext4_da_should_update_i_disksize(page, end)) {
 gdb&gt; print start
 $25 = 0x0
 gdb&gt; print end
 $26 = 0xffffffffffffffff
 gdb&gt; print pos
 $27 = 0x108000
 gdb&gt; print new_i_size
 $28 = 0x108000
 gdb&gt; print ((struct ext4_inode_info *)((char *)inode-((int)(&amp;((struct ext4_inode_info *)0)-&gt;vfs_inode))))-&gt;i_disksize
 $29 = 0xd9000
 gdb&gt; down
 2467            for (i = 0; i &lt; idx; i++)
 gdb&gt; print i
 $30 = 0xd44acbee

This is 100% reproducible with some autonuma development code tuned in
a very aggressive manner (not normal way even for knumad) which does
"exotic" changes to the ptes. It wouldn't normally trigger but I don't
see why it can't happen normally if the page is added to swap cache in
between the two faults leading to "copied" being zero (which then
hangs in ext4). So it should be fixed. Especially possible with lumpy
reclaim (albeit disabled if compaction is enabled) as that would
ignore the young bits in the ptes.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit ea51d132dbf9b00063169c1159bee253d9649224 upstream.

If the pte mapping in generic_perform_write() is unmapped between
iov_iter_fault_in_readable() and iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(), the
"copied" parameter to -&gt;end_write can be zero. ext4 couldn't cope with
it with delayed allocations enabled. This skips the i_disksize
enlargement logic if copied is zero and no new data was appeneded to
the inode.

 gdb&gt; bt
 #0  0xffffffff811afe80 in ext4_da_should_update_i_disksize (file=0xffff88003f606a80, mapping=0xffff88001d3824e0, pos=0x1\
 08000, len=0x1000, copied=0x0, page=0xffffea0000d792e8, fsdata=0x0) at fs/ext4/inode.c:2467
 #1  ext4_da_write_end (file=0xffff88003f606a80, mapping=0xffff88001d3824e0, pos=0x108000, len=0x1000, copied=0x0, page=0\
 xffffea0000d792e8, fsdata=0x0) at fs/ext4/inode.c:2512
 #2  0xffffffff810d97f1 in generic_perform_write (iocb=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, iov=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, nr_segs=&lt;value o\
 ptimized out&gt;, pos=0x108000, ppos=0xffff88001e26be40, count=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, written=0x0) at mm/filemap.c:2440
 #3  generic_file_buffered_write (iocb=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, iov=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, nr_segs=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, p\
 os=0x108000, ppos=0xffff88001e26be40, count=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, written=0x0) at mm/filemap.c:2482
 #4  0xffffffff810db5d1 in __generic_file_aio_write (iocb=0xffff88001e26bde8, iov=0xffff88001e26bec8, nr_segs=0x1, ppos=0\
 xffff88001e26be40) at mm/filemap.c:2600
 #5  0xffffffff810db853 in generic_file_aio_write (iocb=0xffff88001e26bde8, iov=0xffff88001e26bec8, nr_segs=&lt;value optimi\
 zed out&gt;, pos=&lt;value optimized out&gt;) at mm/filemap.c:2632
 #6  0xffffffff811a71aa in ext4_file_write (iocb=0xffff88001e26bde8, iov=0xffff88001e26bec8, nr_segs=0x1, pos=0x108000) a\
 t fs/ext4/file.c:136
 #7  0xffffffff811375aa in do_sync_write (filp=0xffff88003f606a80, buf=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, len=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, \
 ppos=0xffff88001e26bf48) at fs/read_write.c:406
 #8  0xffffffff81137e56 in vfs_write (file=0xffff88003f606a80, buf=0x1ec2960 &lt;Address 0x1ec2960 out of bounds&gt;, count=0x4\
 000, pos=0xffff88001e26bf48) at fs/read_write.c:435
 #9  0xffffffff8113816c in sys_write (fd=&lt;value optimized out&gt;, buf=0x1ec2960 &lt;Address 0x1ec2960 out of bounds&gt;, count=0x\
 4000) at fs/read_write.c:487
 #10 &lt;signal handler called&gt;
 #11 0x00007f120077a390 in __brk_reservation_fn_dmi_alloc__ ()
 #12 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
 gdb&gt; print offset
 $22 = 0xffffffffffffffff
 gdb&gt; print idx
 $23 = 0xffffffff
 gdb&gt; print inode-&gt;i_blkbits
 $24 = 0xc
 gdb&gt; up
 #1  ext4_da_write_end (file=0xffff88003f606a80, mapping=0xffff88001d3824e0, pos=0x108000, len=0x1000, copied=0x0, page=0\
 xffffea0000d792e8, fsdata=0x0) at fs/ext4/inode.c:2512
 2512                    if (ext4_da_should_update_i_disksize(page, end)) {
 gdb&gt; print start
 $25 = 0x0
 gdb&gt; print end
 $26 = 0xffffffffffffffff
 gdb&gt; print pos
 $27 = 0x108000
 gdb&gt; print new_i_size
 $28 = 0x108000
 gdb&gt; print ((struct ext4_inode_info *)((char *)inode-((int)(&amp;((struct ext4_inode_info *)0)-&gt;vfs_inode))))-&gt;i_disksize
 $29 = 0xd9000
 gdb&gt; down
 2467            for (i = 0; i &lt; idx; i++)
 gdb&gt; print i
 $30 = 0xd44acbee

This is 100% reproducible with some autonuma development code tuned in
a very aggressive manner (not normal way even for knumad) which does
"exotic" changes to the ptes. It wouldn't normally trigger but I don't
see why it can't happen normally if the page is added to swap cache in
between the two faults leading to "copied" being zero (which then
hangs in ext4). So it should be fixed. Especially possible with lumpy
reclaim (albeit disabled if compaction is enabled) as that would
ignore the young bits in the ptes.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ext4: display the correct mount option in /proc/mounts for [no]init_itable</title>
<updated>2011-12-21T20:57:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-13T03:06:18+00:00</published>
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commit fc6cb1cda5db7b2d24bf32890826214b857c728e upstream.

/proc/mounts was showing the mount option [no]init_inode_table when
the correct mount option that will be accepted by parse_options() is
[no]init_itable.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit fc6cb1cda5db7b2d24bf32890826214b857c728e upstream.

/proc/mounts was showing the mount option [no]init_inode_table when
the correct mount option that will be accepted by parse_options() is
[no]init_itable.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ext4: remove i_mutex lock in ext4_evict_inode to fix lockdep complaining</title>
<updated>2011-11-11T17:37:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiaying Zhang</name>
<email>jiayingz@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-31T15:50:51+00:00</published>
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commit 8c0bec2151a47906bf779c6715a10ce04453ab77 upstream.

The i_mutex lock and flush_completed_IO() added by commit 2581fdc810
in ext4_evict_inode() causes lockdep complaining about potential
deadlock in several places.  In most/all of these LOCKDEP complaints
it looks like it's a false positive, since many of the potential
circular locking cases can't take place by the time the
ext4_evict_inode() is called; but since at the very least it may mask
real problems, we need to address this.

This change removes the flush_completed_IO() and i_mutex lock in
ext4_evict_inode().  Instead, we take a different approach to resolve
the software lockup that commit 2581fdc810 intends to fix.  Rather
than having ext4-dio-unwritten thread wait for grabing the i_mutex
lock of an inode, we use mutex_trylock() instead, and simply requeue
the work item if we fail to grab the inode's i_mutex lock.

This should speed up work queue processing in general and also
prevents the following deadlock scenario: During page fault,
shrink_icache_memory is called that in turn evicts another inode B.
Inode B has some pending io_end work so it calls ext4_ioend_wait()
that waits for inode B's i_ioend_count to become zero.  However, inode
B's ioend work was queued behind some of inode A's ioend work on the
same cpu's ext4-dio-unwritten workqueue.  As the ext4-dio-unwritten
thread on that cpu is processing inode A's ioend work, it tries to
grab inode A's i_mutex lock.  Since the i_mutex lock of inode A is
still hold before the page fault happened, we enter a deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang &lt;jiayingz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 8c0bec2151a47906bf779c6715a10ce04453ab77 upstream.

The i_mutex lock and flush_completed_IO() added by commit 2581fdc810
in ext4_evict_inode() causes lockdep complaining about potential
deadlock in several places.  In most/all of these LOCKDEP complaints
it looks like it's a false positive, since many of the potential
circular locking cases can't take place by the time the
ext4_evict_inode() is called; but since at the very least it may mask
real problems, we need to address this.

This change removes the flush_completed_IO() and i_mutex lock in
ext4_evict_inode().  Instead, we take a different approach to resolve
the software lockup that commit 2581fdc810 intends to fix.  Rather
than having ext4-dio-unwritten thread wait for grabing the i_mutex
lock of an inode, we use mutex_trylock() instead, and simply requeue
the work item if we fail to grab the inode's i_mutex lock.

This should speed up work queue processing in general and also
prevents the following deadlock scenario: During page fault,
shrink_icache_memory is called that in turn evicts another inode B.
Inode B has some pending io_end work so it calls ext4_ioend_wait()
that waits for inode B's i_ioend_count to become zero.  However, inode
B's ioend work was queued behind some of inode A's ioend work on the
same cpu's ext4-dio-unwritten workqueue.  As the ext4-dio-unwritten
thread on that cpu is processing inode A's ioend work, it tries to
grab inode A's i_mutex lock.  Since the i_mutex lock of inode A is
still hold before the page fault happened, we enter a deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang &lt;jiayingz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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