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  1. May 03, 2015
    • Davide Italiano's avatar
      ext4: move check under lock scope to close a race. · 280227a7
      Davide Italiano authored
      
      
      fallocate() checks that the file is extent-based and returns
      EOPNOTSUPP in case is not. Other tasks can convert from and to
      indirect and extent so it's safe to check only after grabbing
      the inode mutex.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavide Italiano <dccitaliano@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      280227a7
    • Lukas Czerner's avatar
      ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents · d2dc317d
      Lukas Czerner authored
      
      
      Currently it is possible to lose whole file system block worth of data
      when we hit the specific interaction with unwritten and delayed extents
      in status extent tree.
      
      The problem is that when we insert delayed extent into extent status
      tree the only way to get rid of it is when we write out delayed buffer.
      However there is a limitation in the extent status tree implementation
      so that when inserting unwritten extent should there be even a single
      delayed block the whole unwritten extent would be marked as delayed.
      
      At this point, there is no way to get rid of the delayed extents,
      because there are no delayed buffers to write out. So when a we write
      into said unwritten extent we will convert it to written, but it still
      remains delayed.
      
      When we try to write into that block later ext4_da_map_blocks() will set
      the buffer new and delayed and map it to invalid block which causes
      the rest of the block to be zeroed loosing already written data.
      
      For now we can fix this by simply not allowing to set delayed status on
      written extent in the extent status tree. Also add WARN_ON() to make
      sure that we notice if this happens in the future.
      
      This problem can be easily reproduced by running the following xfs_io.
      
      xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xaa 4096 2048" \
                -c "falloc 0 131072" \
                -c "pwrite -S 0xbb 65536 2048" \
                -c "fsync" /mnt/test/fff
      
      echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
      xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xdd 67584 2048" /mnt/test/fff
      
      This can be theoretically also reproduced by at random by running fsx,
      but it's not very reliable, though on machines with bigger page size
      (like ppc) this can be seen more often (especially xfstest generic/127)
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      d2dc317d
  2. May 02, 2015
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  8. Mar 18, 2015
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      fs: add dirtytime_expire_seconds sysctl · 1efff914
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      
      
      Add a tuning knob so we can adjust the dirtytime expiration timeout,
      which is very useful for testing lazytime.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      1efff914
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      fs: make sure the timestamps for lazytime inodes eventually get written · a2f48706
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      
      
      Jan Kara pointed out that if there is an inode which is constantly
      getting dirtied with I_DIRTY_PAGES, an inode with an updated timestamp
      will never be written since inode->dirtied_when is constantly getting
      updated.  We fix this by adding an extra field to the inode,
      dirtied_time_when, so inodes with a stale dirtytime can get detected
      and handled.
      
      In addition, if we have a dirtytime inode caused by an atime update,
      and there is no write activity on the file system, we need to have a
      secondary system to make sure these inodes get written out.  We do
      this by setting up a second delayed work structure which wakes up the
      CPU much more rarely compared to writeback_expire_centisecs.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      a2f48706
  9. Mar 04, 2015