tmpfs: fix regression hang in fallocate undo
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 23:46:32 +0000 (16:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 03:08:44 +0000 (20:08 -0700)
The well-spotted fallocate undo fix is good in most cases, but not when
fallocate failed on the very first page.  index 0 then passes lend -1
to shmem_undo_range(), and that has two bad effects: (a) that it will
undo every fallocation throughout the file, unrestricted by the current
range; but more importantly (b) it can cause the undo to hang, because
lend -1 is treated as truncation, which makes it keep on retrying until
every page has gone, but those already fully instantiated will never go
away.  Big thank you to xfstests generic/269 which demonstrates this.

Fixes: b9b4bb26af01 ("tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/shmem.c

index 24463b6..171dee7 100644 (file)
@@ -2225,9 +2225,11 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
                        error = shmem_getpage(inode, index, &page, SGP_FALLOC);
                if (error) {
                        /* Remove the !PageUptodate pages we added */
-                       shmem_undo_range(inode,
-                               (loff_t)start << PAGE_SHIFT,
-                               ((loff_t)index << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1, true);
+                       if (index > start) {
+                               shmem_undo_range(inode,
+                                   (loff_t)start << PAGE_SHIFT,
+                                   ((loff_t)index << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1, true);
+                       }
                        goto undone;
                }