ext4: fix ext4_flush_completed_IO wait semantics
BUG #1) All places where we call ext4_flush_completed_IO are broken
because buffered io and DIO/AIO goes through three stages
1) submitted io,
2) completed io (in i_completed_io_list) conversion pended
3) finished io (conversion done)
And by calling ext4_flush_completed_IO we will flush only
requests which were in (2) stage, which is wrong because:
1) punch_hole and truncate _must_ wait for all outstanding unwritten io
regardless to it's state.
2) fsync and nolock_dio_read should also wait because there is
a time window between end_page_writeback() and ext4_add_complete_io()
As result integrity fsync is broken in case of buffered write
to fallocated region:
fsync blkdev_completion
->filemap_write_and_wait_range
->ext4_end_bio
->end_page_writeback
<-- filemap_write_and_wait_range return
->ext4_flush_completed_IO
sees empty i_completed_io_list but pended
conversion still exist
->ext4_add_complete_io
BUG #2) Race window becomes wider due to the 'ext4: completed_io
locking cleanup V4' patch series
This patch make following changes:
1) ext4_flush_completed_io() now first try to flush completed io and when
wait for any outstanding unwritten io via ext4_unwritten_wait()
2) Rename function to more appropriate name.
3) Assert that all callers of ext4_flush_unwritten_io should hold i_mutex to
prevent endless wait
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 1be2b44..3ab2539 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1947,7 +1947,7 @@
/* fsync.c */
extern int ext4_sync_file(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int);
-extern int ext4_flush_completed_IO(struct inode *);
+extern int ext4_flush_unwritten_io(struct inode *);
/* hash.c */
extern int ext4fs_dirhash(const char *name, int len, struct
@@ -2371,6 +2371,7 @@
extern const struct inode_operations ext4_file_inode_operations;
extern const struct file_operations ext4_file_operations;
extern loff_t ext4_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
+extern void ext4_unwritten_wait(struct inode *inode);
/* namei.c */
extern const struct inode_operations ext4_dir_inode_operations;