Commit 0dc4c612 authored by Lukas Czerner's avatar Lukas Czerner Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: fix data corruption caused by overlapping unaligned and aligned IO

commit 57a0da28 upstream.

Unaligned AIO must be serialized because the zeroing of partial blocks
of unaligned AIO can result in data corruption in case it's overlapping
another in flight IO.

Currently we wait for all unwritten extents before we submit unaligned
AIO which protects data in case of unaligned AIO is following overlapping
IO. However if a unaligned AIO is followed by overlapping aligned AIO we
can still end up corrupting data.

To fix this, we must make sure that the unaligned AIO is the only IO in
flight by waiting for unwritten extents conversion not just before the
IO submission, but right after it as well.

This problem can be reproduced by xfstest generic/538
Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent b02ae56d
......@@ -264,6 +264,13 @@ ext4_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
}
ret = __generic_file_write_iter(iocb, from);
/*
* Unaligned direct AIO must be the only IO in flight. Otherwise
* overlapping aligned IO after unaligned might result in data
* corruption.
*/
if (ret == -EIOCBQUEUED && unaligned_aio)
ext4_unwritten_wait(inode);
inode_unlock(inode);
if (ret > 0)
......
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