[PATCH v5 13/14] ubifs: ubifs_writepage: Mark page dirty after writing inode failed

Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1 at huawei.com
Mon Dec 20 05:59:50 PST 2021


There are two states for ubifs writing pages:
1. Dirty, Private
2. Not Dirty, Not Private

There is a third possibility which maybe related to [1] that page is
private but not dirty caused by following process:

          PA
lock(page)
ubifs_write_end
  attach_page_private		// set Private
    __set_page_dirty_nobuffers	// set Dirty
unlock(page)

write_cache_pages
  lock(page)
  clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)	// clear Dirty
  ubifs_writepage
    write_inode
    // fail, goto out, following codes are not executed
    // do_writepage
    //   set_page_writeback 	// set Writeback
    //   detach_page_private	// clear Private
    //   end_page_writeback 	// clear Writeback
    out:
    unlock(page)		// Private, Not Dirty

                                       PB
				ksys_fadvise64_64
				  generic_fadvise
				     invalidate_inode_page
				     // page is neither Dirty nor Writeback
				       invalidate_complete_page
				       // page_has_private is true
					 try_to_release_page
					   ubifs_releasepage
					     ubifs_assert(c, 0) !!!

Then we may get following assertion failed:
  UBIFS error (ubi0:0 pid 1492): ubifs_assert_failed [ubifs]:
  UBIFS assert failed: 0, in fs/ubifs/file.c:1499
  UBIFS warning (ubi0:0 pid 1492): ubifs_ro_mode [ubifs]:
  switched to read-only mode, error -22
  CPU: 2 PID: 1492 Comm: aa Not tainted 5.16.0-rc2-00012-g7bb767dee0ba-dirty
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x13/0x1b
    ubifs_ro_mode+0x54/0x60 [ubifs]
    ubifs_assert_failed+0x4b/0x80 [ubifs]
    ubifs_releasepage+0x7e/0x1e0 [ubifs]
    try_to_release_page+0x57/0xe0
    invalidate_inode_page+0xfb/0x130
    invalidate_mapping_pagevec+0x12/0x20
    generic_fadvise+0x303/0x3c0
    vfs_fadvise+0x35/0x40
    ksys_fadvise64_64+0x4c/0xb0

Jump [2] to find a reproducer.

[1] https://linux-mtd.infradead.narkive.com/NQoBeT1u/patch-rfc-ubifs-fix-assert-failed-in-ubifs-set-page-dirty
[2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215357

Fixes: 1e51764a3c2ac0 ("UBIFS: add new flash file system")
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1 at huawei.com>
---
 fs/ubifs/file.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index 6b45a037a047..7cc2abcb70ae 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ static int ubifs_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 		if (page->index >= synced_i_size >> PAGE_SHIFT) {
 			err = inode->i_sb->s_op->write_inode(inode, NULL);
 			if (err)
-				goto out_unlock;
+				goto out_redirty;
 			/*
 			 * The inode has been written, but the write-buffer has
 			 * not been synchronized, so in case of an unclean
@@ -1059,11 +1059,17 @@ static int ubifs_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	if (i_size > synced_i_size) {
 		err = inode->i_sb->s_op->write_inode(inode, NULL);
 		if (err)
-			goto out_unlock;
+			goto out_redirty;
 	}
 
 	return do_writepage(page, len);
-
+out_redirty:
+	/*
+	 * redirty_page_for_writepage() won't call ubifs_dirty_inode() because
+	 * it passes I_DIRTY_PAGES flag while calling __mark_inode_dirty(), so
+	 * there is no need to do space budget for dirty inode.
+	 */
+	redirty_page_for_writepage(wbc, page);
 out_unlock:
 	unlock_page(page);
 	return err;
-- 
2.31.1




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