On 08/11/2015 11:26 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 07:17:12PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> On 08/11/2015 06:28 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>> We also used lock_page() to make sure we shoot out all pages as we don't
>>> exclude page faults during truncate. Consider this race:
>>>
>>>     <fault>                 <truncate>
>>>     get_block
>>>     check i_size
>>>                                     update i_size
>>>                             unmap
>>>     setup pte
>>>
>>
>> Please consider this senario then:
>>
>>      <fault>                 <truncate>
>>      read_lock(inode)
>>
>>      get_block
>>      check i_size
>>      
>>      read_unlock(inode)
>>
>>                              write_lock(inode)
>>
>>                                      update i_size
>>                              * remove allocated blocks
>>                              unmap
>>
>>                              write_unlock(inode)
>>
>>      setup pte
>>
>> IS what you suppose to do in xfs
> 
> Do you realize that you describe a race? :-P
> 
> Exactly in this scenario pfn your pte point to is not belong to the file
> anymore. Have fun.
> 

Sorry yes I have written it wrong, I have now returned to read the actual code
and the setup pte part is also part of the read lock inside the fault handler
before the release of the r_lock.
Da of course it is, it is the page_fault handler that does the
vm_insert_mixed(vma,,pfn) and in the case of concurrent faults the second
call to vm_insert_mixed will return -EBUSY which means all is well.

So the only thing left is the fault-to-fault zero-the-page race as Matthew 
described
and as Dave and me think we can make this part of the FS's get_block where it is
more natural.

Thanks
Boaz

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