Re: [PATCH] fs: buffer: check huge page size instead of single page for invalidatepage

On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 7:41 AM Matthew Wilcox [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 05:07:03PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:

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The debugging showed the page passed to invalidatepage is a huge page
and the length is the size of huge page instead of single page due to
read only FS THP support.  But block_invalidatepage() would throw BUG if
the size is greater than single page.

Things have already gone wrong before we get to this point.  See
do_dentry_open().  You aren't supposed to be able to get a writable file
descriptor on a file which has had huge pages added to the page cache
without the filesystem's knowledge.  That's the problem that needs to
be fixed.

I don't quite understand your point here. Do you mean do_dentry_open()
should fail for such cases instead of truncating the page cache?