The patch titled
ext3: wait on all pending commits in ext3_sync_fs
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ext3-wait-on-all-pending-commits-in-ext3_sync_fs.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: ext3: wait on all pending commits in ext3_sync_fs
From: Arthur Jones <[email protected]>
In ext3_sync_fs, we only wait for a commit to finish if we started it, but
there may be one already in progress which will not be synced.
In the case of a data=ordered umount with pending long symlinks which are
delayed due to a long list of other I/O on the backing block device, this
causes the buffer associated with the long symlinks to not be moved to the
inode dirty list in the second phase of fsync_super. Then, before they
can be dirtied again, kjournald exits, seeing the UMOUNT flag and the
dirty pages are never written to the backing block device, causing long
symlink corruption and exposing new or previously freed block data to
userspace.
This can be reproduced with a script created
by Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>:
#!/bin/bash
umount /mnt/test2
mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/test2
rm -f /mnt/test2/*
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test2/bigfile bs=1M count=512
touch
/mnt/test2/thisisveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongfilename
ln -s
/mnt/test2/thisisveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongfilename
/mnt/test2/link
umount /mnt/test2
mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/test2
ls /mnt/test2/
umount /mnt/test2
To ensure all commits are synced, we flush all journal commits now when
sync_fs'ing ext3.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [2.6.everything]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
fs/ext3/super.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/ext3/super.c~ext3-wait-on-all-pending-commits-in-ext3_sync_fs fs/ext3/super.c
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c~ext3-wait-on-all-pending-commits-in-ext3_sync_fs
+++ a/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -2390,13 +2390,12 @@ static void ext3_write_super (struct sup
static int ext3_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
{
- tid_t target;