From: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>, devel@openvz.org
Subject: [PATCH] incorrect error handling inside generic_file_direct_write
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:34:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k60y1rq4.fsf@sw.ru> (raw)
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OpenVZ team has discovered error inside generic_file_direct_write()
If generic_file_direct_IO() has fail (ENOSPC condition) it may have instantiated
a few blocks outside i_size. And fsck will complain about wrong i_size
(ext2, ext3 and reiserfs interpret i_size and biggest block difference as error),
after fsck will fix error i_size will be increased to the biggest block,
but this blocks contain gurbage from previous write attempt, this is not
information leak, but its silence file data corruption.
We need truncate any block beyond i_size after write have failed , do in simular
generic_file_buffered_write() error path.
Exampe:
open("mnt2/FILE3", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_DIRECT, 0666) = 3
write(3, "aaaaaa"..., 4096) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device)
stat mnt2/FILE3
File: `mnt2/FILE3'
Size: 0 Blocks: 4 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>^^^^^^^^^^ file size is less than biggest block idx
Device: 700h/1792d Inode: 14 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
fsck.ext2 -f -n mnt1/fs_img
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inode 14, i_size is 0, should be 2048. Fix? no
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
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diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 7b84dc8..bf7cf6c 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2041,6 +2041,14 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *
mark_inode_dirty(inode);
}
*ppos = end;
+ } else if (written < 0) {
+ loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode);
+ /*
+ * generic_file_direct_IO() may have instantiated a few blocks
+ * outside i_size. Trim these off again.
+ */
+ if (pos + count > isize)
+ vmtruncate(inode, isize);
}
/*
next reply other threads:[~2006-12-11 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-11 13:34 Dmitriy Monakhov [this message]
2006-12-11 12:38 ` [Devel] " Kirill Korotaev
2006-12-11 20:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-12 9:22 ` Dmitriy Monakhov
2006-12-12 6:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-12 12:20 ` Dmitriy Monakhov
2006-12-12 9:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-12 13:18 ` Dmitriy Monakhov
2006-12-12 10:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-12 23:14 ` Dmitriy Monakhov
2006-12-13 2:43 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-12-15 10:43 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2006-12-15 18:53 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2007-01-02 11:17 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
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