Ross Zwisler 713cb65003 ext4: prevent data corruption with inline data + DAX
commit 559db4c6d784ceedc2a5418ced4d357cb843e221 upstream.

If an inode has inline data it is currently prevented from using DAX by a
check in ext4_set_inode_flags().  When the inode grows inline data via
ext4_create_inline_data() or removes its inline data via
ext4_destroy_inline_data_nolock(), the value of S_DAX can change.

Currently these changes are unsafe because we don't hold off page faults
and I/O, write back dirty radix tree entries and invalidate all mappings.
There are also issues with mm-level races when changing the value of S_DAX,
as well as issues with the VM_MIXEDMAP flag:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg09859.html

The unsafe transition of S_DAX can reliably cause data corruption, as shown
by the following fstest:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9948381/

Fix this issue by preventing the DAX mount option from being used on
filesystems that were created to support inline data.  Inline data is an
option given to mkfs.ext4.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-30 08:40:48 +00:00
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