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[ Upstream commit 198dd8aedee6a7d2de0dfa739f9a008a938f6848 ] xfs_buffered_write_iomap_end() has a comment about the safety of punching delalloc extents based holding the IOLOCK_EXCL. This comment is wrong, and punching delalloc extents is not race free. When we punch out a delalloc extent after a write failure in xfs_buffered_write_iomap_end(), we punch out the page cache with truncate_pagecache_range() before we punch out the delalloc extents. At this point, we only hold the IOLOCK_EXCL, so there is nothing stopping mmap() write faults racing with this cleanup operation, reinstantiating a folio over the range we are about to punch and hence requiring the delalloc extent to be kept. If this race condition is hit, we can end up with a dirty page in the page cache that has no delalloc extent or space reservation backing it. This leads to bad things happening at writeback time. To avoid this race condition, we need the page cache truncation to be atomic w.r.t. the extent manipulation. We can do this by holding the mapping->invalidate_lock exclusively across this operation - this will prevent new pages from being inserted into the page cache whilst we are removing the pages and the backing extent and space reservation. Taking the mapping->invalidate_lock exclusively in the buffered write IO path is safe - it naturally nests inside the IOLOCK (see truncate and fallocate paths). iomap_zero_range() can be called from under the mapping->invalidate_lock (from the truncate path via either xfs_zero_eof() or xfs_truncate_page(), but iomap_zero_iter() will not instantiate new delalloc pages (because it skips holes) and hence will not ever need to punch out delalloc extents on failure. Fix the locking issue, and clean up the code logic a little to avoid unnecessary work if we didn't allocate the delalloc extent or wrote the entire region we allocated. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@gmail.com> Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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