Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 5 authors, 2015-09-28

Re: [PATCH] mm: fix cpu hangs on truncating last page of a 16t sparse file

From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Date: 2015-09-27 01:36:29
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

Let's Cc linux-fsdevel, who will be more knowledgable.

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, angelo wrote:
Hi all,

running xfstests, generic 308 on whatever 32bit arch is possible
to observe cpu to hang near 100% on unlink.
The test removes a sparse file of length 16tera where only the last
4096 bytes block is mapped.
At line 265 of truncate.c there is a
if (index >= end)
    break;
But if index is, as in this case, a 4294967295, it match -1 used as
eof. Hence the cpu loops 100% just after.
That's odd.  I've not checked your patch, because I think the problem
would go beyond truncate, and the root cause lie elsewhere.

My understanding is that the 32-bit
#define MAX_LFS_FILESIZE (((loff_t)PAGE_CACHE_SIZE << (BITS_PER_LONG-1))-1) 
makes a page->index of -1 (or any "negative") impossible to reach.

I don't know offhand the rules for mounting a filesystem populated with
a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit kernel, what's to happen when a too-large
file is encountered; but assume that's not the case here - you're
just running xfstests/tests/generic/308.

Is pwrite missing a check for offset beyond s_maxbytes?

Or is this filesystem-dependent?  Which filesystem?

Hugh
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
-------------------

On 32bit archs, with CONFIG_LBDAF=y, if truncating last page
of a 16tera file, "index" variable is set to 4294967295, and hence
matches with -1 used as EOF value. This result in an inifite loop
when unlink is executed on this file.

Signed-off-by: Angelo Dureghello <redacted>
---
 mm/truncate.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 76e35ad..3751034 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -283,14 +283,15 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct address_space
*mapping,
                pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec);
                pagevec_release(&pvec);
                cond_resched();
-               index++;
+               if (index < end)
+                       index++;
        }

        if (partial_start) {
                struct page *page = find_lock_page(mapping, start - 1);
                if (page) {
                        unsigned int top = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
-                       if (start > end) {
+                       if (start > end && end != -1) {
                                /* Truncation within a single page */
                                top = partial_end;
                                partial_end = 0;
@@ -322,7 +323,7 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct address_space
*mapping,
         * If the truncation happened within a single page no pages
         * will be released, just zeroed, so we can bail out now.
         */
-       if (start >= end)
+       if (start >= end && end != -1)
                return;

        index = start;
@@ -337,7 +338,7 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct address_space
*mapping,
                        index = start;
                        continue;
                }
-               if (index == start && indices[0] >= end) {
+               if (index == start && (indices[0] >= end && end != -1)) {
                        /* All gone out of hole to be punched, we're done */
                        pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec);
                        pagevec_release(&pvec);
@@ -348,7 +349,7 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct address_space
*mapping,

                        /* We rely upon deletion not changing page->index */
                        index = indices[i];
-                       if (index >= end) {
+                       if (index >= end && (end != -1)) {
                                /* Restart punch to make sure all gone */
                                index = start - 1;
                                break;
-- 
2.5.3
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