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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2021-01-07 16:40:34 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2021-01-26 10:22:18 -0700
commit767630c63bb23acf022adb265574996ca39a4645 (patch)
treec65326eca59d2752a65c59ca79ee95cd5cbdf2c8 /fs/block_dev.c
parent46bbf653a67a36989a55dbb894c8b94c5ecb2858 (diff)
bdev: Do not return EBUSY if bdev discard races with write
blkdev_fallocate() tries to detect whether a discard raced with an overlapping write by calling invalidate_inode_pages2_range(). However this check can give both false negatives (when writing using direct IO or when writeback already writes out the written pagecache range) and false positives (when write is not actually overlapping but ends in the same page when blocksize < pagesize). This actually causes issues for qemu which is getting confused by EBUSY errors. Fix the problem by removing this conflicting write detection since it is inherently racy and thus of little use anyway. Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> CC: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20201111153913.41840-1-mlevitsk@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 6f5bd9950baf..289c3dd923a4 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -1801,13 +1801,11 @@ static long blkdev_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t start,
return error;
/*
- * Invalidate again; if someone wandered in and dirtied a page,
- * the caller will be given -EBUSY. The third argument is
- * inclusive, so the rounding here is safe.
+ * Invalidate the page cache again; if someone wandered in and dirtied
+ * a page, we just discard it - userspace has no way of knowing whether
+ * the write happened before or after discard completing...
*/
- return invalidate_inode_pages2_range(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping,
- start >> PAGE_SHIFT,
- end >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ return truncate_bdev_range(bdev, file->f_mode, start, end);
}
const struct file_operations def_blk_fops = {