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STALE1759d LANDED

Landed in mainline as 7607c44c157d on 2021-11-09.

[PATCH 1/2] block: Hold invalidate_lock in BLKDISCARD ioctl

From: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-09 10:47:27
Subsystem: block layer, the rest · Maintainers: Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds

When BLKDISCARD ioctl and data read race, the data read leaves stale
page cache. To avoid the stale page cache, hold invalidate_lock of the
block device file mapping. The stale page cache is observed when
blktests test case block/009 is repeated hundreds of times.

This patch can be applied back to the stable kernel version v5.15.y
with slight patch edit. Rework is required for older stable kernels.

Fixes: 351499a172c0 ("block: Invalidate cache on discard v2")
Signed-off-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <redacted>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.15
---
 block/ioctl.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index d6af0ac97e57..9fa87f64f703 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static int blk_ioctl_discard(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 	uint64_t range[2];
 	uint64_t start, len;
 	struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
+	struct inode *inode = bdev->bd_inode;
 	int err;
 
 	if (!(mode & FMODE_WRITE))
@@ -135,12 +136,17 @@ static int blk_ioctl_discard(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 	if (start + len > bdev_nr_bytes(bdev))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	filemap_invalidate_lock(inode->i_mapping);
 	err = truncate_bdev_range(bdev, mode, start, start + len - 1);
 	if (err)
-		return err;
+		goto fail;
+
+	err = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, start >> 9, len >> 9,
+				   GFP_KERNEL, flags);
 
-	return blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, start >> 9, len >> 9,
-				    GFP_KERNEL, flags);
+fail:
+	filemap_invalidate_unlock(inode->i_mapping);
+	return err;
 }
 
 static int blk_ioctl_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
-- 
2.33.1
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