ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned
asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated
by xfstest 240.

The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the
hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and 
dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions.  When
more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new"
block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated
and causes data corruption.

Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all
unaligned asynchronous direct IO.  I've done the same here.
The difference is that we only wait on conversions, not all IO.
This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with
stuffing this into ext4_file_write().  But since ext4 is
DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level.

I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then
we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the
work queue to do conversions - which must also take the
i_mutex.  So that won't work.

This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to
a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment.  I've
tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does
avoid the corruption.  It is also quite a lot slower
(14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned)
but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day.

Mingming suggested that we can track outstanding
conversions, and wait on those so that non-sparse
files won't be affected, and I've implemented that here;
unaligned AIO to nonsparse files won't take a perf hit.

[tytso@mit.edu: Keep the mutex as a hashed array instead
 of bloating the ext4 inode]

[tytso@mit.edu: Fix up namespace issues so that global
 variables are protected with an "ext4_" prefix.]

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 59 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index 2e8322c..7b80d54 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -55,11 +55,47 @@ static int ext4_release_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void ext4_aiodio_wait(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	wait_queue_head_t *wq = ext4_ioend_wq(inode);
+
+	wait_event(*wq, (atomic_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten) == 0));
+}
+
+/*
+ * This tests whether the IO in question is block-aligned or not.
+ * Ext4 utilizes unwritten extents when hole-filling during direct IO, and they
+ * are converted to written only after the IO is complete.  Until they are
+ * mapped, these blocks appear as holes, so dio_zero_block() will assume that
+ * it needs to zero out portions of the start and/or end block.  If 2 AIO
+ * threads are at work on the same unwritten block, they must be synchronized
+ * or one thread will zero the other's data, causing corruption.
+ */
+static int
+ext4_unaligned_aio(struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov,
+		   unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+	int blockmask = sb->s_blocksize - 1;
+	size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
+	loff_t final_size = pos + count;
+
+	if (pos >= inode->i_size)
+		return 0;
+
+	if ((pos & blockmask) || (final_size & blockmask))
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static ssize_t
 ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = iocb->ki_filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+	int unaligned_aio = 0;
+	int ret;
 
 	/*
 	 * If we have encountered a bitmap-format file, the size limit
@@ -78,9 +114,31 @@ ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 			nr_segs = iov_shorten((struct iovec *)iov, nr_segs,
 					      sbi->s_bitmap_maxbytes - pos);
 		}
+	} else if (unlikely((iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT) &&
+		   !is_sync_kiocb(iocb))) {
+		unaligned_aio = ext4_unaligned_aio(inode, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 	}
 
-	return generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
+	/* Unaligned direct AIO must be serialized; see comment above */
+	if (unaligned_aio) {
+		static unsigned long unaligned_warn_time;
+
+		/* Warn about this once per day */
+		if (printk_timed_ratelimit(&unaligned_warn_time, 60*60*24*HZ))
+			ext4_msg(inode->i_sb, KERN_WARNING,
+				 "Unaligned AIO/DIO on inode %ld by %s; "
+				 "performance will be poor.",
+				 inode->i_ino, current->comm);
+		mutex_lock(ext4_aio_mutex(inode));
+		ext4_aiodio_wait(inode);
+	}
+
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
+
+	if (unaligned_aio)
+		mutex_unlock(ext4_aio_mutex(inode));
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static const struct vm_operations_struct ext4_file_vm_ops = {