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It's possible for post-eof blocks to end up being used for direct I/O writes. dio write performs an upfront unwritten extent allocation, sends the dio and then updates the inode size (if necessary) on write completion. If a file release occurs while a file extending dio write is in flight, it is possible to mistake the post-eof blocks for speculative preallocation and incorrectly truncate them from the inode. This means that the resulting dio write completion can discover a hole and allocate new blocks rather than perform unwritten extent conversion. This requires a strange mix of I/O and is thus not likely to reproduce in real world workloads. It is intermittently reproduced by generic/299. The error manifests as an assert failure due to transaction overrun because the aforementioned write completion transaction has only reserved enough blocks for btree operations: XFS: Assertion failed: tp->t_blk_res_used <= tp->t_blk_res, \ file: fs/xfs//xfs_trans.c, line: 309 The root cause is that xfs_free_eofblocks() uses i_size to truncate post-eof blocks from the inode, but async, file extending direct writes do not update i_size until write completion, long after inode locks are dropped. Therefore, xfs_free_eofblocks() effectively truncates the inode to the incorrect size. Update xfs_free_eofblocks() to serialize against dio similar to how extending writes are serialized against i_size updates before post-eof block zeroing. Specifically, wait on dio while under the iolock. This ensures that dio write completions have updated i_size before post-eof blocks are processed. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.