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<title>kernel.git/fs/nilfs2/inode.c, branch linux-4.0.y</title>
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<updated>2014-12-11T01:41:16Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: fix the nilfs_iget() vs. nilfs_new_inode() races</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T01:41:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
</author>
<published>2014-12-10T23:54:34Z</published>
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Same story as in commit 41080b5a2401 ("nfsd race fixes: ext2") (similar
ext2 fix) except that nilfs2 needs to use insert_inode_locked4() instead
of insert_inode_locked() and a bug of a check for dead inodes needs to
be fixed.

If nilfs_iget() is called from nfsd after nilfs_new_inode() calls
insert_inode_locked4(), nilfs_iget() will wait for unlock_new_inode() at
the end of nilfs_mkdir()/nilfs_create()/etc to unlock the inode.

If nilfs_iget() is called before nilfs_new_inode() calls
insert_inode_locked4(), it will create an in-core inode and read its
data from the on-disk inode.  But, nilfs_iget() will find i_nlink equals
zero and fail at nilfs_read_inode_common(), which will lead it to call
iget_failed() and cleanly fail.

However, this sanity check doesn't work as expected for reused on-disk
inodes because they leave a non-zero value in i_mode field and it
hinders the test of i_nlink.  This patch also fixes the issue by
removing the test on i_mode that nilfs2 doesn't need.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nilfs2: improve the performance of fdatasync()</title>
<updated>2014-10-14T00:18:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Rohner</name>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T22:53:22Z</published>
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Support for fdatasync() has been implemented in NILFS2 for a long time,
but whenever the corresponding inode is dirty the implementation falls
back to a full-flegded sync().  Since every write operation has to
update the modification time of the file, the inode will almost always
be dirty and fdatasync() will fall back to sync() most of the time.  But
this fallback is only necessary for a change of the file size and not
for a change of the various timestamps.

This patch adds a new flag NILFS_I_INODE_SYNC to differentiate between
those two situations.

 * If it is set the file size was changed and a full sync is necessary.
 * If it is not set then only the timestamps were updated and
   fdatasync() can go ahead.

There is already a similar flag I_DIRTY_DATASYNC on the VFS layer with
the exact same semantics.  Unfortunately it cannot be used directly,
because NILFS2 doesn't implement write_inode() and doesn't clear the VFS
flags when inodes are written out.  So the VFS writeback thread can
clear I_DIRTY_DATASYNC at any time without notifying NILFS2.  So
I_DIRTY_DATASYNC has to be mapped onto NILFS_I_INODE_SYNC in
nilfs_update_inode().

Signed-off-by: Andreas Rohner &lt;andreas.rohner@gmx.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nilfs2: fix data loss with mmap()</title>
<updated>2014-09-26T15:10:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Rohner</name>
</author>
<published>2014-09-25T23:05:14Z</published>
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This bug leads to reproducible silent data loss, despite the use of
msync(), sync() and a clean unmount of the file system.  It is easily
reproducible with the following script:

  ----------------[BEGIN SCRIPT]--------------------
  mkfs.nilfs2 -f /dev/sdb
  mount /dev/sdb /mnt

  dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=30 of=/mnt/testfile

  umount /mnt
  mount /dev/sdb /mnt
  CHECKSUM_BEFORE="$(md5sum /mnt/testfile)"

  /root/mmaptest/mmaptest /mnt/testfile 30 10 5

  sync
  CHECKSUM_AFTER="$(md5sum /mnt/testfile)"
  umount /mnt
  mount /dev/sdb /mnt
  CHECKSUM_AFTER_REMOUNT="$(md5sum /mnt/testfile)"
  umount /mnt

  echo "BEFORE MMAP:\t$CHECKSUM_BEFORE"
  echo "AFTER MMAP:\t$CHECKSUM_AFTER"
  echo "AFTER REMOUNT:\t$CHECKSUM_AFTER_REMOUNT"
  ----------------[END SCRIPT]--------------------

The mmaptest tool looks something like this (very simplified, with
error checking removed):

  ----------------[BEGIN mmaptest]--------------------
  data = mmap(NULL, file_size - file_offset, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
              MAP_SHARED, fd, file_offset);

  for (i = 0; i &lt; write_count; ++i) {
        memcpy(data + i * 4096, buf, sizeof(buf));
        msync(data, file_size - file_offset, MS_SYNC))
  }
  ----------------[END mmaptest]--------------------

The output of the script looks something like this:

  BEFORE MMAP:    281ed1d5ae50e8419f9b978aab16de83  /mnt/testfile
  AFTER MMAP:     6604a1c31f10780331a6850371b3a313  /mnt/testfile
  AFTER REMOUNT:  281ed1d5ae50e8419f9b978aab16de83  /mnt/testfile

So it is clear, that the changes done using mmap() do not survive a
remount.  This can be reproduced a 100% of the time.  The problem was
introduced in commit 136e8770cd5d ("nilfs2: fix issue of
nilfs_set_page_dirty() for page at EOF boundary").

If the page was read with mpage_readpage() or mpage_readpages() for
example, then it has no buffers attached to it.  In that case
page_has_buffers(page) in nilfs_set_page_dirty() will be false.
Therefore nilfs_set_file_dirty() is never called and the pages are never
collected and never written to disk.

This patch fixes the problem by also calling nilfs_set_file_dirty() if the
page has no buffers attached to it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/PAGE_SHIFT/PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT/]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rohner &lt;andreas.rohner@gmx.net&gt;
Tested-by: Andreas Rohner &lt;andreas.rohner@gmx.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>switch {__,}blockdev_direct_IO() to iov_iter</title>
<updated>2014-05-06T21:32:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
</author>
<published>2014-03-05T06:33:16Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>get rid of pointless iov_length() in -&gt;direct_IO()</title>
<updated>2014-05-06T21:32:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
</author>
<published>2014-03-05T03:38:00Z</published>
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all callers have iov_length(iter-&gt;iov, iter-&gt;nr_segs) == iov_iter_count(iter)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>pass iov_iter to -&gt;direct_IO()</title>
<updated>2014-05-06T21:32:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
</author>
<published>2014-03-05T02:27:34Z</published>
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unmodified, for now

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache</title>
<updated>2014-04-03T23:21:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
</author>
<published>2014-04-03T21:47:49Z</published>
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Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon
evicting the real page.  As those pages are found from the LRU, an
iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently.  At this point,
reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing
code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty.

Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets
under the tree lock before doing the final truncate.  Reclaim will check
for this flag before installing shadow pages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Luigi Semenzato &lt;semenzato@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Metin Doslu &lt;metin@citusdata.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ozgun Erdogan &lt;ozgun@citusdata.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;klamm@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Ryan Mallon &lt;rmallon@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter</title>
<updated>2013-09-12T22:38:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
</author>
<published>2013-09-12T22:13:56Z</published>
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truncate_pagecache() doesn't care about old size since commit
cedabed49b39 ("vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression").  Let's drop it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>] nilfs2: use atomic64_t type for inodes_count and blocks_count fields in nilfs_root struct</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T23:08:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vyacheslav Dubeyko</name>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T22:08:06Z</published>
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The cp_inodes_count and cp_blocks_count are represented as __le64 type in
on-disk structure (struct nilfs_checkpoint).  But analogous fields in
in-core structure (struct nilfs_root) are represented by atomic_t type.

This patch replaces atomic_t on atomic64_t type in representation of
inodes_count and blocks_count fields in struct nilfs_root.

Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Joern Engel &lt;joern@logfs.org&gt;
Cc: Clemens Eisserer &lt;linuxhippy@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nilfs2: fix issue of nilfs_set_page_dirty() for page at EOF boundary</title>
<updated>2013-05-24T23:22:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
</author>
<published>2013-05-24T22:55:29Z</published>
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nilfs2: fix issue of nilfs_set_page_dirty for page at EOF boundary

DESCRIPTION:
 There are use-cases when NILFS2 file system (formatted with block size
lesser than 4 KB) can be remounted in RO mode because of encountering of
"broken bmap" issue.

The issue was reported by Anthony Doggett &lt;Anthony2486@interfaces.org.uk&gt;:
 "The machine I've been trialling nilfs on is running Debian Testing,
  Linux version 3.2.0-4-686-pae (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc
  version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.2.35-2), but I've
  also reproduced it (identically) with Debian Unstable amd64 and Debian
  Experimental (using the 3.8-trunk kernel).  The problematic partitions
  were formatted with "mkfs.nilfs2 -b 1024 -B 8192"."

SYMPTOMS:
(1) System log contains error messages likewise:

    [63102.496756] nilfs_direct_assign: invalid pointer: 0
    [63102.496786] NILFS error (device dm-17): nilfs_bmap_assign: broken bmap (inode number=28)
    [63102.496798]
    [63102.524403] Remounting filesystem read-only

(2) The NILFS2 file system is remounted in RO mode.

REPRODUSING PATH:
(1) Create volume group with name "unencrypted" by means of vgcreate utility.
(2) Run script (prepared by Anthony Doggett &lt;Anthony2486@interfaces.org.uk&gt;):

----------------[BEGIN SCRIPT]--------------------

VG=unencrypted
lvcreate --size 2G --name ntest $VG
mkfs.nilfs2 -b 1024 -B 8192 /dev/mapper/$VG-ntest
mkdir /var/tmp/n
mkdir /var/tmp/n/ntest
mount /dev/mapper/$VG-ntest /var/tmp/n/ntest
mkdir /var/tmp/n/ntest/thedir
cd /var/tmp/n/ntest/thedir
sleep 2
date
darcs init
sleep 2
dmesg|tail -n 5
date
darcs whatsnew || true
date
sleep 2
dmesg|tail -n 5
----------------[END SCRIPT]--------------------

REPRODUCIBILITY: 100%

INVESTIGATION:
As it was discovered, the issue takes place during segment
construction after executing such sequence of user-space operations:

  open("_darcs/index", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY, 0666) = 7
  fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
  ftruncate(7, 60)

The error message "NILFS error (device dm-17): nilfs_bmap_assign: broken
bmap (inode number=28)" takes place because of trying to get block
number for third block of the file with logical offset #3072 bytes.  As
it is possible to see from above output, the file has 60 bytes of the
whole size.  So, it is enough one block (1 KB in size) allocation for
the whole file.  Trying to operate with several blocks instead of one
takes place because of discovering several dirty buffers for this file
in nilfs_segctor_scan_file() method.

The root cause of this issue is in nilfs_set_page_dirty function which
is called just before writing to an mmapped page.

When nilfs_page_mkwrite function handles a page at EOF boundary, it
fills hole blocks only inside EOF through __block_page_mkwrite().

The __block_page_mkwrite() function calls set_page_dirty() after filling
hole blocks, thus nilfs_set_page_dirty function (=
a_ops-&gt;set_page_dirty) is called.  However, the current implementation
of nilfs_set_page_dirty() wrongly marks all buffers dirty even for page
at EOF boundary.

As a result, buffers outside EOF are inconsistently marked dirty and
queued for write even though they are not mapped with nilfs_get_block
function.

FIX:
This modifies nilfs_set_page_dirty() not to mark hole blocks dirty.

Thanks to Vyacheslav Dubeyko for his effort on analysis and proposals
for this issue.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Reported-by: Anthony Doggett &lt;Anthony2486@interfaces.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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