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    xfs: fix eofblocks race with file extending async dio writes · 02577091
    Brian Foster authored
    commit e4229d6b upstream.
    
    It's possible for post-eof blocks to end up being used for direct I/O
    writes. dio write performs an upfront unwritten extent allocation, sends
    the dio and then updates the inode size (if necessary) on write
    completion. If a file release occurs while a file extending dio write is
    in flight, it is possible to mistake the post-eof blocks for speculative
    preallocation and incorrectly truncate them from the inode. This means
    that the resulting dio write completion can discover a hole and allocate
    new blocks rather than perform unwritten extent conversion.
    
    This requires a strange mix of I/O and is thus not likely to reproduce
    in real world workloads. It is intermittently reproduced by generic/299.
    The error manifests as an assert failure due to transaction overrun
    because the aforementioned write completion transaction has only
    reserved enough blocks for btree operations:
    
      XFS: Assertion failed: tp->t_blk_res_used <= tp->t_blk_res, \
       file: fs/xfs//xfs_trans.c, line: 309
    
    The root cause is that xfs_free_eofblocks() uses i_size to truncate
    post-eof blocks from the inode, but async, file extending direct writes
    do not update i_size until write completion, long after inode locks are
    dropped. Therefore, xfs_free_eofblocks() effectively truncates the inode
    to the incorrect size.
    
    Update xfs_free_eofblocks() to serialize against dio similar to how
    extending writes are serialized against i_size updates before post-eof
    block zeroing. Specifically, wait on dio while under the iolock. This
    ensures that dio write completions have updated i_size before post-eof
    blocks are processed.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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