ext4: fix bh->b_state corruption
commit ed8ad838 upstream. ext4 can update bh->b_state non-atomically in _ext4_get_block() and ext4_da_get_block_prep(). Usually this is fine since bh is just a temporary storage for mapping information on stack but in some cases it can be fully living bh attached to a page. In such case non-atomic update of bh->b_state can race with an atomic update which then gets lost. Usually when we are mapping bh and thus updating bh->b_state non-atomically, nobody else touches the bh and so things work out fine but there is one case to especially worry about: ext4_finish_bio() uses BH_Uptodate_Lock on the first bh in the page to synchronize handling of PageWriteback state. So when blocksize < pagesize, we can be atomically modifying bh->b_state of a buffer that actually isn't under IO and thus can race e.g. with delalloc trying to map that buffer. The result is that we can mistakenly set / clear BH_Uptodate_Lock bit resulting in the corruption of PageWriteback state or missed unlock of BH_Uptodate_Lock. Fix the problem by always updating bh->b_state bits atomically. Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> [ luis: backported to 3.16: - replaced READ_ONCE() by ACCESS_ONCE() ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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