Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix the issue of missing lock in ext4_page_mkwrite

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Hi Penglei,

On 2025/3/30 15:55, Penglei Jiang wrote:
In ext4_page_mkwrite, it calls ext4_convert_inline_data, but it does
not use inode_lock to hold i_rwsem.

Fixes: 7b4cc9787fe35 ("ext4: evict inline data when writing to memory map")
Reported-by: syzbot+d14b2bea87fe2aaffa3b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67e57c6c.050a0220.2f068f.0037.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Penglei Jiang <superman.xpt@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 +++
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index bcb96caf77c0..4e726c86377a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -6203,6 +6203,8 @@ vm_fault_t ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
  	sb_start_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
  	file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
+ inode_lock(inode);
+
  	filemap_invalidate_lock_shared(mapping);
err = ext4_convert_inline_data(inode);
We cannot directly add inode_lock here, otherwise it may cause ABBA
deadlock. The inline data conversion here does lack inode_lock, but
there is no good way to fix it now. For details, please see:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/d704ce55-321a-9c1d-1f8b-3360a0fdf978@xxxxxxxxxx/
@@ -6308,6 +6310,7 @@ vm_fault_t ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
  	ret = vmf_fs_error(err);
  out:
  	filemap_invalidate_unlock_shared(mapping);
+	inode_unlock(inode);
  	sb_end_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
  	return ret;
  out_error:




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