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ext3: wait on all pending commits in ext3_sync_fs

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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 <sandeen@redhat.com>:

	#!/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 <ajones@riverbed.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.everything]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Arthur Jones 2008-11-06 12:53:35 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent fbdd12676c
commit c87591b719
1 changed files with 5 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -2390,13 +2390,12 @@ static void ext3_write_super (struct super_block * sb)
static int ext3_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
{
tid_t target;
sb->s_dirt = 0;
if (journal_start_commit(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal, &target)) {
if (wait)
log_wait_commit(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal, target);
}
if (wait)
ext3_force_commit(sb);
else
journal_start_commit(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal, NULL);
return 0;
}