-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------
From: Vladimir V. Saveliev <[email protected]>
generic_file_buffered_write() prefaults in user pages in order to avoid
deadlock on copying from the same page as write goes to.
However, it looks like there is a problem when write is vectored:
fault_in_pages_readable brings in current segment or its part (maxlen).
OTOH, filemap_copy_from_user_iovec is called to copy number of bytes
(bytes) which may exceed current segment, so filemap_copy_from_user_iovec
switches to the next segment which is not brought in yet. Pagefault is
generated. That causes the deadlock if pagefault is for the same page
write goes to: page being written is locked and not uptodate, pagefault
will deadlock trying to lock locked page.
[[email protected]: somewhat rewritten]
Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
---
mm/filemap.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.17.1.orig/mm/filemap.c
+++ linux-2.6.17.1/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2004,14 +2004,21 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
do {
unsigned long index;
unsigned long offset;
- unsigned long maxlen;
size_t copied;
offset = (pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE -1)); /* Within page */
index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
bytes = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset;
- if (bytes > count)
- bytes = count;
+
+ /* Limit the size of the copy to the caller's write size */
+ bytes = min(bytes, count);
+
+ /*
+ * Limit the size of the copy to that of the current segment,
+ * because fault_in_pages_readable() doesn't know how to walk
+ * segments.
+ */
+ bytes = min(bytes, cur_iov->iov_len - iov_base);
/*
* Bring in the user page that we will copy from _first_.
@@ -2019,10 +2026,7 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
* same page as we're writing to, without it being marked
* up-to-date.
*/
- maxlen = cur_iov->iov_len - iov_base;
- if (maxlen > bytes)
- maxlen = bytes;
- fault_in_pages_readable(buf, maxlen);
+ fault_in_pages_readable(buf, bytes);
page = __grab_cache_page(mapping,index,&cached_page,&lru_pvec);
if (!page) {
--
-
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