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authorRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>2016-02-26 15:19:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-02-27 10:28:52 -0800
commit73f34a5e2ceddfca27c999c170620e6354aaf6d7 (patch)
treebbadfef9feecde6b2961f248166f7a526004faaa /fs
parent0a6cf9137ded4856b41910a4336677ee0ffa6736 (diff)
downloadlinux-73f34a5e2ceddfca27c999c170620e6354aaf6d7.tar.gz
ext4: online defrag not supported with DAX
Online defrag operations for ext4 are hard coded to use the page cache.
See ext4_ioctl() -> ext4_move_extents() -> move_extent_per_page()

When combined with DAX I/O, which circumvents the page cache, this can
result in data corruption.  This was observed with xfstests ext4/307 and
ext4/308.

Fix this by only allowing online defrag for non-DAX files.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/ioctl.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index a99b010e2194..eae5917c534e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -583,6 +583,11 @@ group_extend_out:
 				 "Online defrag not supported with bigalloc");
 			err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 			goto mext_out;
+		} else if (IS_DAX(inode)) {
+			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
+				 "Online defrag not supported with DAX");
+			err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+			goto mext_out;
 		}
 
 		err = mnt_want_write_file(filp);