[PATCH v5 14/14] ubifs: ubifs_releasepage: Remove ubifs_assert(0) to valid this process

[Zhihao Cheng]

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

The normal process cannot go to ubifs_releasepage() which means there
exists pages being private but not dirty. Reproducer[1] shows that it
could occur (which maybe related to [2]) with following process:

     PA                     PB                    PC
lock(page)[PA]
ubifs_write_end
  attach_page_private         // set Private
  __set_page_dirty_nobuffers  // set Dirty
unlock(page)

write_cache_pages[PA]
  lock(page)
  clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)	// clear Dirty
  ubifs_writepage

                        do_truncation[PB]
			  truncate_setsize
			    i_size_write(inode, newsize) // newsize = 0

    i_size = i_size_read(inode)	// i_size = 0
    end_index = i_size >> PAGE_SHIFT
    if (page->index > end_index)
      goto out // jump
out:
unlock(page)   // Private, Not Dirty

						generic_fadvise[PC]
						  lock(page)
						  invalidate_inode_page
						    try_to_release_page
						      ubifs_releasepage
						        ubifs_assert(c, 0)
		                                        // bad assertion!
						  unlock(page)

Then we may get following assertion failed:
  UBIFS error (ubi0:0 pid 1683): ubifs_assert_failed [ubifs]:
  UBIFS assert failed: 0, in fs/ubifs/file.c:1513
  UBIFS warning (ubi0:0 pid 1683): ubifs_ro_mode [ubifs]:
  switched to read-only mode, error -22
  CPU: 2 PID: 1683 Comm: aa Not tainted 5.16.0-rc5-00184-g0bca5994cacc-dirty #308
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x13/0x1b
    ubifs_ro_mode+0x54/0x60 [ubifs]
    ubifs_assert_failed+0x4b/0x80 [ubifs]
    ubifs_releasepage+0x67/0x1d0 [ubifs]
    try_to_release_page+0x57/0xe0
    invalidate_inode_page+0xfb/0x130
    __invalidate_mapping_pages+0xb9/0x280
    invalidate_mapping_pagevec+0x12/0x20
    generic_fadvise+0x303/0x3c0
    ksys_fadvise64_64+0x4c/0xb0

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215373
[2] https://linux-mtd.infradead.narkive.com/NQoBeT1u/patch-rfc-ubifs-fix-assert-failed-in-ubifs-set-page-dirty

Fixes: 1e51764a3c2ac0 ("UBIFS: add new flash file system")
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1 at huawei.com>
---
 fs/ubifs/file.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index 7cc2abcb70ae..4bafcb80d29c 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -1494,14 +1494,23 @@ static int ubifs_releasepage(struct page *page, gfp_t unused_gfp_flags)
 	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
 	struct ubifs_info *c = inode->i_sb->s_fs_info;
 
-	/*
-	 * An attempt to release a dirty page without budgeting for it - should
-	 * not happen.
-	 */
 	if (PageWriteback(page))
 		return 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * Page is private but not dirty, weird? There is one condition
+	 * making it happened. ubifs_writepage skipped the page because
+	 * page index beyonds isize (for example. truncated by other
+	 * process named A), then the page is invalidated by fadvise64
+	 * syscall before being truncated by process A.
+	 */
 	ubifs_assert(c, PagePrivate(page));
-	ubifs_assert(c, 0);
+	if (PageChecked(page))
+		release_new_page_budget(c);
+	else
+		release_existing_page_budget(c);
+
+	atomic_long_dec(&c->dirty_pg_cnt);
 	detach_page_private(page);
 	ClearPageChecked(page);
 	return 1;
-- 
2.31.1