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authorhujianyang <hujianyang@huawei.com>2014-04-30 14:06:06 +0800
committerArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>2014-05-13 13:45:15 +0300
commit691a7c6f28ac90cccd0dbcf81348ea90b211bdd0 (patch)
treef90a131981d969b002dd004590ac72efe007e990 /fs/ubifs
parentd6d211db37e75de2ddc3a4f979038c40df7cc79c (diff)
downloadlinux-691a7c6f28ac90cccd0dbcf81348ea90b211bdd0.tar.gz
UBIFS: fix an mmap and fsync race condition
There is a race condition in UBIFS:

Thread A (mmap)                        Thread B (fsync)

->__do_fault                           ->write_cache_pages
   -> ubifs_vm_page_mkwrite
       -> budget_space
       -> lock_page
       -> release/convert_page_budget
       -> SetPagePrivate
       -> TestSetPageDirty
       -> unlock_page
                                       -> lock_page
                                           -> TestClearPageDirty
                                           -> ubifs_writepage
                                               -> do_writepage
                                                   -> release_budget
                                                   -> ClearPagePrivate
                                                   -> unlock_page
   -> !(ret & VM_FAULT_LOCKED)
   -> lock_page
   -> set_page_dirty
       -> ubifs_set_page_dirty
           -> TestSetPageDirty (set page dirty without budgeting)
   -> unlock_page

This leads to situation where we have a diry page but no budget allocated for
this page, so further write-back may fail with -ENOSPC.

In this fix we return from page_mkwrite without performing unlock_page. We
return VM_FAULT_LOCKED instead. After doing this, the race above will not
happen.

Signed-off-by: hujianyang <hujianyang@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Laurence Withers <lwithers@guralp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ubifs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/file.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index 4f34dbae823d..f7d48a08f443 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -1525,8 +1525,7 @@ static int ubifs_vm_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	}
 
 	wait_for_stable_page(page);
-	unlock_page(page);
-	return 0;
+	return VM_FAULT_LOCKED;
 
 out_unlock:
 	unlock_page(page);