[PATCH 10/13] netfs: Fix i_size updating

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Tue Jul 1 09:38:45 PDT 2025


Fix the updating of i_size, particularly in regard to the completion of DIO
writes and especially async DIO writes by using a lock.

The bug is triggered occasionally by the generic/207 xfstest as it chucks a
bunch of AIO DIO writes at the filesystem and then checks that fstat()
returns a reasonable st_size as each completes.

The problem is that netfs is trying to do "if new_size > inode->i_size,
update inode->i_size" sort of thing but without a lock around it.

This can be seen with cifs, but shouldn't be seen with kafs because kafs
serialises modification ops on the client whereas cifs sends the requests
to the server as they're generated and lets the server order them.

Fixes: 153a9961b551 ("netfs: Implement unbuffered/DIO write support")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Steve French <sfrench at samba.org>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc at manguebit.org>
cc: linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
cc: netfs at lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/netfs/buffered_write.c | 2 ++
 fs/netfs/direct_write.c   | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/buffered_write.c b/fs/netfs/buffered_write.c
index 72a3e6db2524..b87ef3fe4ea4 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/buffered_write.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/buffered_write.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ static void netfs_update_i_size(struct netfs_inode *ctx, struct inode *inode,
 		return;
 	}
 
+	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 	i_size_write(inode, pos);
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FSCACHE)
 	fscache_update_cookie(ctx->cache, NULL, &pos);
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ static void netfs_update_i_size(struct netfs_inode *ctx, struct inode *inode,
 					DIV_ROUND_UP(pos, SECTOR_SIZE),
 					inode->i_blocks + add);
 	}
+	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/fs/netfs/direct_write.c b/fs/netfs/direct_write.c
index fa9a5bf3c6d5..3efa5894b2c0 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/direct_write.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/direct_write.c
@@ -14,13 +14,17 @@ static void netfs_cleanup_dio_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq)
 	struct inode *inode = wreq->inode;
 	unsigned long long end = wreq->start + wreq->transferred;
 
-	if (!wreq->error &&
-	    i_size_read(inode) < end) {
+	if (wreq->error || end <= i_size_read(inode))
+		return;
+
+	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+	if (end > i_size_read(inode)) {
 		if (wreq->netfs_ops->update_i_size)
 			wreq->netfs_ops->update_i_size(inode, end);
 		else
 			i_size_write(inode, end);
 	}
+	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 }
 
 /*




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