tree 2a02f4b1fa16dfd0e9945e46d347839ee46f4d00
parent ab6d14e83db6e08c39a867a4cba378f7a774d273
author Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> 1557539133 -0400
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1558457341 +0200

ext4: fix data corruption caused by overlapping unaligned and aligned IO

commit 57a0da28ced8707cb9f79f071a016b9d005caf5a upstream.

Unaligned AIO must be serialized because the zeroing of partial blocks
of unaligned AIO can result in data corruption in case it's overlapping
another in flight IO.

Currently we wait for all unwritten extents before we submit unaligned
AIO which protects data in case of unaligned AIO is following overlapping
IO. However if a unaligned AIO is followed by overlapping aligned AIO we
can still end up corrupting data.

To fix this, we must make sure that the unaligned AIO is the only IO in
flight by waiting for unwritten extents conversion not just before the
IO submission, but right after it as well.

This problem can be reproduced by xfstest generic/538

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>