filemap: Fix serialization adding transparent huge pages to page cache
authorAlistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 09:05:36 +0000 (19:05 +1000)
committerMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:22:00 +0000 (12:22 -0400)
Commit 793917d997df ("mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead")
introduced support for using large folios for filebacked pages if the
filesystem supports it.

page_cache_ra_order() was introduced to allocate and add these large
folios to the page cache. However adding pages to the page cache should
be serialized against truncation and hole punching by taking
invalidate_lock. Not doing so can lead to data races resulting in stale
data getting added to the page cache and marked up-to-date. See commit
730633f0b7f9 ("mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with
invalidate_lock") for more details.

This issue was found by inspection but a testcase revealed it was
possible to observe in practice on XFS. Fix this by taking
invalidate_lock in page_cache_ra_order(), to mirror what is done for the
non-thp case in page_cache_ra_unbounded().

Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Fixes: 793917d997df ("mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
mm/readahead.c

index 57a0151082543cb67b08d7c1721f62b1e10c6678..fdcd28cbd92ded7a19e45d2737bcf96649a2f91b 100644 (file)
@@ -510,6 +510,7 @@ void page_cache_ra_order(struct readahead_control *ractl,
                        new_order--;
        }
 
+       filemap_invalidate_lock_shared(mapping);
        while (index <= limit) {
                unsigned int order = new_order;
 
@@ -536,6 +537,7 @@ void page_cache_ra_order(struct readahead_control *ractl,
        }
 
        read_pages(ractl);
+       filemap_invalidate_unlock_shared(mapping);
 
        /*
         * If there were already pages in the page cache, then we may have