iomap: fix handling of dirty folios over unwritten extents
The iomap zero range implementation doesn't properly handle dirty pagecache over unwritten mappings. It skips such mappings as if they were pre-zeroed. If some part of an unwritten mapping is dirty in pagecache from a previous write, the data in cache should be zeroed as well. Instead, the data is left in cache and creates a stale data exposure problem if writeback occurs sometime after the zero range. Most callers are unaffected by this because the higher level filesystem contexts that call zero range typically perform a filemap flush of the target range for other reasons. A couple contexts that don't otherwise need to flush are write file size extension and truncate in XFS. The former path is currently susceptible to the stale data exposure problem and the latter performs a flush specifically to work around it. This is clearly inconsistent and incomplete. As a first step toward correcting behavior, lift the XFS workaround to iomap_zero_range() and unconditionally flush the range before the zero range operation proceeds. While this appears to be a bit of a big hammer, most all users already do this from calling context save for the couple of exceptions noted above. Future patches will optimize or elide this flush while maintaining functional correctness. Fixes: ae259a9c ("fs: introduce iomap infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240830145634.138439-2-bfoster@redhat.comReviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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