On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:09:48PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:

On Thu 07-01-16 17:55:21, Jan Kara wrote:

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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>

ext4 can update bh->b_state non-atomically in _ext4_get_block() and
ext4_da_get_block_prep(). Usually this is fine since bh is just a
temporary storage for mapping information on stack but in some cases it
can be fully living bh attached to a page. In such case non-atomic
update of bh->b_state can race with an atomic update which then gets
lost. Usually when we are mapping bh and thus updating bh->b_state
non-atomically, nobody else touches the bh and so things work out fine
but there is one case to especially worry about: ext4_finish_bio() uses
BH_Uptodate_Lock on the first bh in the page to synchronize handling of
PageWriteback state. So when blocksize < pagesize, we can be atomically
modifying bh->b_state of a buffer that actually isn't under IO and thus
can race e.g. with delalloc trying to map that buffer. The result is
that we can mistakenly set / clear BH_Uptodate_Lock bit resulting in the
corruption of PageWriteback state or missed unlock of BH_Uptodate_Lock.

Fix the problem by always updating bh->b_state bits atomically.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Ping Ted? This seems to have fallen through the cracks?

Oops, sorry.  Thanks, applied.

						- Ted