Fix read/truncate race
do_generic_mapping_read currently samples the i_size at the start and doesn't
do so again unless it needs to call ->readpage to load a page. After
->readpage it has to re-sample i_size as a truncate may have caused that page
to be filled with zeros, and the read() call should not see these.
However there are other activities that might cause ->readpage to be called on
a page between the time that do_generic_mapping_read samples i_size and when
it finds that it has an uptodate page. These include at least read-ahead and
possibly another thread performing a read.
So do_generic_mapping_read must sample i_size *after* it has an uptodate page.
Thus the current sampling at the start and after a read can be replaced with
a sampling before the copy-out.
The same change applied to __generic_file_splice_read.
Note that this fixes any race with truncate_complete_page, but does not fix a
possible race with truncate_partial_page. If a partial truncate happens after
do_generic_mapping_read samples i_size and before the copy_out, the nuls that
truncate_partial_page place in the page could be copied out incorrectly.
I think the best fix for that is to *not* zero out parts of the page in
truncate_partial_page, but rather to zero out the tail of a page when
increasing i_size.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 100b99c..5d5449f 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -867,13 +867,11 @@
{
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
unsigned long index;
- unsigned long end_index;
unsigned long offset;
unsigned long last_index;
unsigned long next_index;
unsigned long prev_index;
unsigned int prev_offset;
- loff_t isize;
struct page *cached_page;
int error;
struct file_ra_state ra = *_ra;
@@ -886,27 +884,12 @@
last_index = (*ppos + desc->count + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
offset = *ppos & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
- isize = i_size_read(inode);
- if (!isize)
- goto out;
-
- end_index = (isize - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
for (;;) {
struct page *page;
+ unsigned long end_index;
+ loff_t isize;
unsigned long nr, ret;
- /* nr is the maximum number of bytes to copy from this page */
- nr = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
- if (index >= end_index) {
- if (index > end_index)
- goto out;
- nr = ((isize - 1) & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK) + 1;
- if (nr <= offset) {
- goto out;
- }
- }
- nr = nr - offset;
-
cond_resched();
if (index == next_index)
next_index = page_cache_readahead(mapping, &ra, filp,
@@ -921,6 +904,32 @@
if (!PageUptodate(page))
goto page_not_up_to_date;
page_ok:
+ /*
+ * i_size must be checked after we know the page is Uptodate.
+ *
+ * Checking i_size after the check allows us to calculate
+ * the correct value for "nr", which means the zero-filled
+ * part of the page is not copied back to userspace (unless
+ * another truncate extends the file - this is desired though).
+ */
+
+ isize = i_size_read(inode);
+ end_index = (isize - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+ if (unlikely(!isize || index > end_index)) {
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ /* nr is the maximum number of bytes to copy from this page */
+ nr = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
+ if (index == end_index) {
+ nr = ((isize - 1) & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK) + 1;
+ if (nr <= offset) {
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ }
+ nr = nr - offset;
/* If users can be writing to this page using arbitrary
* virtual addresses, take care about potential aliasing
@@ -1007,31 +1016,6 @@
unlock_page(page);
}
- /*
- * i_size must be checked after we have done ->readpage.
- *
- * Checking i_size after the readpage allows us to calculate
- * the correct value for "nr", which means the zero-filled
- * part of the page is not copied back to userspace (unless
- * another truncate extends the file - this is desired though).
- */
- isize = i_size_read(inode);
- end_index = (isize - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
- if (unlikely(!isize || index > end_index)) {
- page_cache_release(page);
- goto out;
- }
-
- /* nr is the maximum number of bytes to copy from this page */
- nr = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
- if (index == end_index) {
- nr = ((isize - 1) & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK) + 1;
- if (nr <= offset) {
- page_cache_release(page);
- goto out;
- }
- }
- nr = nr - offset;
goto page_ok;
readpage_error: