If lfs mode is on, buffered read may race w/ OPU dio write as below, it may cause buffered read hits unwritten data unexpectly, and for dio read, the race condition exists as well.
Thread A Thread B - f2fs_file_write_iter - f2fs_dio_write_iter - __iomap_dio_rw - f2fs_iomap_begin - f2fs_map_blocks - __allocate_data_block - allocated blkaddr #x - iomap_dio_submit_bio - f2fs_file_read_iter - filemap_read - f2fs_read_data_folio - f2fs_mpage_readpages - f2fs_map_blocks : get blkaddr #x - f2fs_submit_read_bio IRQ - f2fs_read_end_io : read IO on blkaddr #x complete IRQ - iomap_dio_bio_end_io : direct write IO on blkaddr #x complete In LFS mode, if there is inflight dio, let's force read to buffered IO, this policy won't cover all race cases, however it is a tradeoff which avoids abusing lock around IO paths. Fixes: f847c699cff3 ("f2fs: allow out-place-update for direct IO in LFS mode") Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <c...@kernel.org> --- fs/f2fs/file.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c index 278573974db4..866f1a34e92b 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/file.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c @@ -882,6 +882,10 @@ static bool f2fs_force_buffered_io(struct inode *inode, int rw) return true; if (is_sbi_flag_set(sbi, SBI_CP_DISABLED)) return true; + /* In LFS mode, if there is inflight dio, force read to buffered IO */ + if (rw == READ && f2fs_lfs_mode(sbi) && + atomic_read(&inode->i_dio_count)) + return false; return false; } -- 2.40.1 _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel