Commit 30ac674a authored by wangguang's avatar wangguang Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: bugfix for mmaped pages in mpage_release_unused_pages()

commit 4e800c03 upstream.

Pages clear buffers after ext4 delayed block allocation failed,
However, it does not clean its pte_dirty flag.
if the pages unmap ,in cording to the pte_dirty ,
unmap_page_range may try to call __set_page_dirty,

which may lead to the bugon at
mpage_prepare_extent_to_map:head = page_buffers(page);.

This patch just call clear_page_dirty_for_io to clean pte_dirty
at mpage_release_unused_pages for pages mmaped.

Steps to reproduce the bug:

(1) mmap a file in ext4
	addr = (char *)mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
	       	            fd, 0);
	memset(addr, 'i', 4096);

(2) return EIO at

	ext4_writepages->mpage_map_and_submit_extent->mpage_map_one_extent

which causes this log message to be print:

                ext4_msg(sb, KERN_CRIT,
                        "Delayed block allocation failed for "
                        "inode %lu at logical offset %llu with"
                        " max blocks %u with error %d",
                        inode->i_ino,
                        (unsigned long long)map->m_lblk,
                        (unsigned)map->m_len, -err);

(3)Unmap the addr cause warning at

	__set_page_dirty:WARN_ON_ONCE(warn && !PageUptodate(page));

(4) wait for a minute,then bugon happen.
Signed-off-by: default avatarwangguang <wangguang03@zte.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent eac6c9e4
......@@ -1649,6 +1649,8 @@ static void mpage_release_unused_pages(struct mpage_da_data *mpd,
BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
if (invalidate) {
if (page_mapped(page))
clear_page_dirty_for_io(page);
block_invalidatepage(page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
ClearPageUptodate(page);
}
......
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