Commit 57a0da28 authored by Lukas Czerner's avatar Lukas Czerner Committed by Theodore Ts'o

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

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
parent 0d52154b
...@@ -264,6 +264,13 @@ ext4_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from) ...@@ -264,6 +264,13 @@ ext4_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
} }
ret = __generic_file_write_iter(iocb, 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); inode_unlock(inode);
if (ret > 0) if (ret > 0)
......
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