Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755529Ab0BBPEO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:04:14 -0500 Received: from mail-out2.uio.no ([129.240.10.58]:36551 "EHLO mail-out2.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751619Ab0BBPEK (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:04:10 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs: clear_commit_release incorrectly handle truncated page From: Trond Myklebust To: Dmitry Monakhov Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <87hbpzhqlp.fsf@openvz.org> References: <87hbpzhqlp.fsf@openvz.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:04:05 -0500 Message-ID: <1265123045.3177.21.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 (2.28.2-1.fc12) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Ratelimit-Test: rcpts/h 3 msgs/h 1 sum rcpts/h 5 sum msgs/h 1 total rcpts 2332 max rcpts/h 27 ratelimit 0 X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5.0, required=5.0, autolearn=disabled, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL=-5, uiobl=NO, uiouri=NO) X-UiO-Scanned: 25F36843540B4C0E580C7C28E25EAF010167703F X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 68.40.206.115 spam_score: -49 maxlevel 80 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 1 total 149 max/h 7 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 999 Lines: 25 On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:36 +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: > After page was truncated it lost it's mapping, this result in null > pointer dereference on bdi_stat update. In fact we have to decrement > bdi_stat even for truncated pages, so let's pass correct mapping in > function arguments. Patch against linux-2.6 > ##TEST_CASE > /* > Tast case for bug in nfs_clear_request_commit() > caused by null pointer dereference in case of truncated page. > It takes less than 10 minutes to reproduce the bug. Something is wrong here. nfs_release_page() returns '0' if the page has an associated write request (i.e. PagePrivate is set), and so both invalidate_complete_page() and invalidate_complete_page2() will fail. So what is truncating the page? Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/