ext4: fix races between page faults and hole punching

Currently, page faults and hole punching are completely unsynchronized.
This can result in page fault faulting in a page into a range that we
are punching after truncate_pagecache_range() has been called and thus
we can end up with a page mapped to disk blocks that will be shortly
freed. Filesystem corruption will shortly follow. Note that the same
race is avoided for truncate by checking page fault offset against
i_size but there isn't similar mechanism available for punching holes.

Fix the problem by creating new rw semaphore i_mmap_sem in inode and
grab it for writing over truncate, hole punching, and other functions
removing blocks from extent tree and for read over page faults. We
cannot easily use i_data_sem for this since that ranks below transaction
start and we need something ranking above it so that it can be held over
the whole truncate / hole punching operation. Also remove various
workarounds we had in the code to reduce race window when page fault
could have created pages with stale mapping information.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index cc7ca4e87144..348a5ff4a0e2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -910,6 +910,15 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
 	 * by other means, so we have i_data_sem.
 	 */
 	struct rw_semaphore i_data_sem;
+	/*
+	 * i_mmap_sem is for serializing page faults with truncate / punch hole
+	 * operations. We have to make sure that new page cannot be faulted in
+	 * a section of the inode that is being punched. We cannot easily use
+	 * i_data_sem for this since we need protection for the whole punch
+	 * operation and i_data_sem ranks below transaction start so we have
+	 * to occasionally drop it.
+	 */
+	struct rw_semaphore i_mmap_sem;
 	struct inode vfs_inode;
 	struct jbd2_inode *jinode;
 
@@ -2484,6 +2493,7 @@ extern int ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(struct inode *, int nrblocks);
 extern int ext4_zero_partial_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 			     loff_t lstart, loff_t lend);
 extern int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf);
+extern int ext4_filemap_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf);
 extern qsize_t *ext4_get_reserved_space(struct inode *inode);
 extern void ext4_da_update_reserve_space(struct inode *inode,
 					int used, int quota_claim);