[PATCH 008/270] eCryptfs: Write out all dirty pages just before releasing the lower file

From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
Date: Mon Nov 26 2012 - 13:21:47 EST


3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 7149f2558d5b5b988726662fe58b1c388337805b upstream.

Fixes a regression caused by:

821f749 eCryptfs: Revert to a writethrough cache model

That patch reverted some code (specifically, 32001d6f) that was
necessary to properly handle open() -> mmap() -> close() -> dirty pages
-> munmap(), because the lower file could be closed before the dirty
pages are written out.

Rather than reapplying 32001d6f, this approach is a better way of
ensuring that the lower file is still open in order to handle writing
out the dirty pages. It is called from ecryptfs_release(), while we have
a lock on the lower file pointer, just before the lower file gets the
final fput() and we overwrite the pointer.

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1047261

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Artemy Tregubenko <me@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Artemy Tregubenko <me@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ecryptfs/main.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
index df217dc..c2a9c39 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ void ecryptfs_put_lower_file(struct inode *inode)
inode_info = ecryptfs_inode_to_private(inode);
if (atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(&inode_info->lower_file_count,
&inode_info->lower_file_mutex)) {
+ filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping);
fput(inode_info->lower_file);
inode_info->lower_file = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&inode_info->lower_file_mutex);
--
1.7.9.5

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