fuse: fix race in fuse_writepages()
The patch fixes a race between ftruncate(2), mmap-ed write and write(2): 1) An user makes a page dirty via mmap-ed write. 2) The user performs shrinking truncate(2) intended to purge the page. 3) Before fuse_do_setattr calls truncate_pagecache, the page goes to writeback. fuse_writepages_fill attaches a new page to FUSE_WRITE request, then releases the original page by end_page_writeback and unlock it. 4) fuse_do_setattr completes and successfully returns. Since now, i_mutex is free. 5) Ordinary write(2) extends i_size back to cover the page. Note that fuse_send_write_pages do wait for fuse writeback, but for another page->index. 6) fuse_writepages_fill attaches more pages to the request (if any), then fuse_writepages_send is eventually called. It is supposed to crop inarg->size of the request, but it doesn't because i_size has already been extended back. Moving end_page_writeback behind fuse_writepages_send guarantees that __fuse_release_nowrite (called from fuse_do_setattr) will crop inarg->size of the request before write(2) gets the chance to extend i_size. Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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