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Commit 4f8caa60 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: fix data corruption with EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO

When ext4_map_blocks() is called with EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO to zero-out
allocated blocks and these blocks are actually converted from unwritten
extent the following race can happen:

CPU0					CPU1

page fault				page fault
...					...
ext4_map_blocks()
  ext4_ext_map_blocks()
    ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents()
      ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized()
	- zero out converted extent
	ext4_zeroout_es()
	  - inserts extent as initialized in status tree

					ext4_map_blocks()
					  ext4_es_lookup_extent()
					    - finds initialized extent
					write data
  ext4_issue_zeroout()
    - zeroes out new extent overwriting data

This problem can be reproduced by generic/340 for the fallocated case
for the last block in the file.

Fix the problem by avoiding zeroing out the area we are mapping with
ext4_map_blocks() in ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(). It is pointless
to zero out this area in the first place as the caller asked us to
convert the area to initialized because he is just going to write data
there before the transaction finishes. To achieve this we delete the
special case of zeroing out full extent as that will be handled by the
cases below zeroing only the part of the extent that needs it. We also
instruct ext4_split_extent() that the middle of extent being split
contains data so that ext4_split_extent_at() cannot zero out full extent
in case of ENOSPC.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 12735f88


Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
parent b8cb5a54
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