ext4: online defrag not supported with DAX
authorRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 26 Feb 2016 23:19:49 +0000 (15:19 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 18:28:52 +0000 (10:28 -0800)
Online defrag operations for ext4 are hard coded to use the page cache.
See ext4_ioctl() -> ext4_move_extents() -> move_extent_per_page()

When combined with DAX I/O, which circumvents the page cache, this can
result in data corruption.  This was observed with xfstests ext4/307 and
ext4/308.

Fix this by only allowing online defrag for non-DAX files.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ext4/ioctl.c

index a99b010..eae5917 100644 (file)
@@ -583,6 +583,11 @@ group_extend_out:
                                 "Online defrag not supported with bigalloc");
                        err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
                        goto mext_out;
+               } else if (IS_DAX(inode)) {
+                       ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
+                                "Online defrag not supported with DAX");
+                       err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+                       goto mext_out;
                }
 
                err = mnt_want_write_file(filp);