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    ext4: fix races between buffered IO and collapse / insert range · 32ebffd3
    Jan Kara authored
    Current code implementing FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE and
    FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE is prone to races with buffered writes and page
    faults. If buffered write or write via mmap manages to squeeze between
    filemap_write_and_wait_range() and truncate_pagecache() in the fallocate
    implementations, the written data is simply discarded by
    truncate_pagecache() although it should have been shifted.
    
    Fix the problem by moving filemap_write_and_wait_range() call inside
    i_mutex and i_mmap_sem. That way we are protected against races with
    both buffered writes and page faults.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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