UBIFS: fix an mmap and fsync race condition

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There is a race condition in UBIFS:

Thread A (mmap)                        Thread B (fsync)

->__do_fault                           ->write_cache_pages
   -> ubifs_vm_page_mkwrite
       -> budget_space
       -> lock_page
       -> release/convert_page_budget
       -> SetPagePrivate
       -> TestSetPageDirty
       -> unlock_page
                                       -> lock_page
                                           -> TestClearPageDirty
                                           -> ubifs_writepage
                                               -> do_writepage
                                                   -> release_budget
                                                   -> ClearPagePrivate
                                                   -> unlock_page
   -> !(ret & VM_FAULT_LOCKED)
   -> lock_page
   -> set_page_dirty
       -> ubifs_set_page_dirty
           -> TestSetPageDirty (set page dirty without budgeting)
   -> unlock_page

This leads to situation where we have a diry page but no budget allocated for
this page, so further write-back may fail with -ENOSPC.

In this fix we return from page_mkwrite without performing unlock_page. We
return VM_FAULT_LOCKED instead. After doing this, the race above will not
happen.

Signed-off-by: hujianyang <hujianyang@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Laurence Withers <lwithers@guralp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

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hujianyang 2014-04-30 14:06:06 +08:00 • committed by Artem Bityutskiy

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