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    xfs: eof trim writeback mapping as soon as it is cached · aa6ee4ab
    Brian Foster authored
    The cached writeback mapping is EOF trimmed to try and avoid races
    between post-eof block management and writeback that result in
    sending cached data to a stale location. The cached mapping is
    currently trimmed on the validation check, which leaves a race
    window between the time the mapping is cached and when it is trimmed
    against the current inode size.
    
    For example, if a new mapping is cached by delalloc conversion on a
    blocksize == page size fs, we could cycle various locks, perform
    memory allocations, etc.  in the writeback codepath before the
    associated mapping is eventually trimmed to i_size. This leaves
    enough time for a post-eof truncate and file append before the
    cached mapping is trimmed. The former event essentially invalidates
    a range of the cached mapping and the latter bumps the inode size
    such the trim on the next writepage event won't trim all of the
    invalid blocks. fstest generic/464 reproduces this scenario
    occasionally and causes a lost writeback and stale delalloc blocks
    warning on inode inactivation.
    
    To work around this problem, trim the cached writeback mapping as
    soon as it is cached in addition to on subsequent validation checks.
    This is a minor tweak to tighten the race window as much as possible
    until a proper invalidation mechanism is available.
    
    Fixes: 40214d12 ("xfs: trim writepage mapping to within eof")
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.14+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAllison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.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>
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