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Vivek Goyal be8db260f4 fuse: fix write deadlock 
commit 4f06dd92b5 upstream.

There are two modes for write(2) and friends in fuse:

a) write through (update page cache, send sync WRITE request to userspace)

b) buffered write (update page cache, async writeout later)

The write through method kept all the page cache pages locked that were
used for the request.  Keeping more than one page locked is deadlock prone
and Qian Cai demonstrated this with trinity fuzzing.

The reason for keeping the pages locked is that concurrent mapped reads
shouldn't try to pull possibly stale data into the page cache.

For full page writes, the easy way to fix this is to make the cached page
be the authoritative source by marking the page PG_uptodate immediately.
After this the page can be safely unlocked, since mapped/cached reads will
take the written data from the cache.

Concurrent mapped writes will now cause data in the original WRITE request
to be updated; this however doesn't cause any data inconsistency and this
scenario should be exceedingly rare anyway.

If the WRITE request returns with an error in the above case, currently the
page is not marked uptodate; this means that a concurrent read will always
read consistent data.  After this patch the page is uptodate between
writing to the cache and receiving the error: there's window where a cached
read will read the wrong data.  While theoretically this could be a
regression, it is unlikely to be one in practice, since this is normal for
buffered writes.

In case of a partial page write to an already uptodate page the locking is
also unnecessary, with the above caveats.

Partial write of a not uptodate page still needs to be handled.  One way
would be to read the complete page before doing the write.  This is not
possible, since it might break filesystems that don't expect any READ
requests when the file was opened O_WRONLY.

The other solution is to serialize the synchronous write with reads from
the partial pages.  The easiest way to do this is to keep the partial pages
locked.  The problem is that a write() may involve two such pages (one head
and one tail).  This patch fixes it by only locking the partial tail page.
If there's a partial head page as well, then split that off as a separate
WRITE request.

Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/4794a3fa3742a5e84fb0f934944204b55730829b.camel@lca.pw/
Fixes: ea9b9907b8 ("fuse: implement perform_write")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.26
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-05-11 14:04:16 +02:00
arch powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h 2021-05-11 14:04:15 +02:00
block block: only update parent bi_status when bio fail 2021-04-16 11:46:38 +02:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 10:26:29 +01:00
crypto crypto: rng - fix crypto_rng_reset() refcounting when !CRYPTO_STATS 2021-05-11 14:04:15 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: fix typo in NVMEM 2021-04-14 08:24:18 +02:00
drivers dm raid: fix inconclusive reshape layout on fast raid4/5/6 table reload sequences 2021-05-11 14:04:15 +02:00
fs fuse: fix write deadlock 2021-05-11 14:04:16 +02:00
include power: supply: bq27xxx: fix power_avg for newer ICs 2021-05-11 14:04:08 +02:00
init init/Kconfig: make COMPILE_TEST depend on HAS_IOMEM 2021-04-10 13:34:32 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel sched/fair: Ignore percpu threads for imbalance pulls 2021-05-11 14:04:11 +02:00
lib avoid __memcat_p link failure 2021-05-07 10:51:37 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm: fix race by making init_zero_pfn() early_initcall 2021-04-07 14:47:42 +02:00
net openvswitch: fix stack OOB read while fragmenting IPv4 packets 2021-05-11 14:04:14 +02:00
samples samples, bpf: Add missing munmap in xdpsock 2021-03-17 17:03:33 +01:00
scripts ftrace: Have recordmcount use w8 to read relp->r_info in arm64_is_fake_mcount 2021-03-09 11:09:39 +01:00
security integrity: double check iint_cache was initialized 2021-03-30 14:35:24 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Intel Clevo PCx0Dx 2021-05-11 14:04:13 +02:00
tools perf ftrace: Fix access to pid in array when setting a pid filter 2021-05-07 10:51:37 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Ensure I-cache isolation between vcpus of a same VM 2021-03-17 17:03:57 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes 2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM 2020-08-26 10:40:46 +02:00
Makefile Makefile: Move -Wno-unused-but-set-variable out of GCC only block 2021-05-11 14:04:14 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.