On Thu 06-06-19 10:00:01, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 2:10 AM Jan Kara <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > When inserting entry into xarray, we store mapping and index in
> > corresponding struct pages for memory error handling. When it happened
> > that one process was mapping file at PMD granularity while another
> > process at PTE granularity, we could wrongly deassociate PMD range and
> > then reassociate PTE range leaving the rest of struct pages in PMD range
> > without mapping information which could later cause missed notifications
> > about memory errors. Fix the problem by calling the association /
> > deassociation code if and only if we are really going to update the
> > xarray (deassociating and associating zero or empty entries is just
> > no-op so there's no reason to complicate the code with trying to avoid
> > the calls for these cases).
>
> Looks good to me, I assume this also needs:
>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Fixes: d2c997c0f145 ("fs, dax: use page->mapping to warn if truncate
> collides with a busy page")
Yes, thanks for that.
Honza
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > fs/dax.c | 9 ++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
> > index f74386293632..9fd908f3df32 100644
> > --- a/fs/dax.c
> > +++ b/fs/dax.c
> > @@ -728,12 +728,11 @@ static void *dax_insert_entry(struct xa_state *xas,
> >
> > xas_reset(xas);
> > xas_lock_irq(xas);
> > - if (dax_entry_size(entry) != dax_entry_size(new_entry)) {
> > + if (dax_is_zero_entry(entry) || dax_is_empty_entry(entry)) {
> > + void *old;
> > +
> > dax_disassociate_entry(entry, mapping, false);
> > dax_associate_entry(new_entry, mapping, vmf->vma,
> > vmf->address);
> > - }
> > -
> > - if (dax_is_zero_entry(entry) || dax_is_empty_entry(entry)) {
> > /*
> > * Only swap our new entry into the page cache if the
> > current
> > * entry is a zero page or an empty entry. If a normal PTE
> > or
> > @@ -742,7 +741,7 @@ static void *dax_insert_entry(struct xa_state *xas,
> > * existing entry is a PMD, we will just leave the PMD in
> > the
> > * tree and dirty it if necessary.
> > */
> > - void *old = dax_lock_entry(xas, new_entry);
> > + old = dax_lock_entry(xas, new_entry);
> > WARN_ON_ONCE(old != xa_mk_value(xa_to_value(entry) |
> > DAX_LOCKED));
> > entry = new_entry;
> > --
> > 2.16.4
> >
--
Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, CR
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