ext4: online defrag not supported with DAX
authorRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 26 Feb 2016 23:19:49 +0000 (15:19 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 18:28:52 +0000 (10:28 -0800)
commit73f34a5e2ceddfca27c999c170620e6354aaf6d7
treebbadfef9feecde6b2961f248166f7a526004faaa
parent0a6cf9137ded4856b41910a4336677ee0ffa6736
ext4: online defrag not supported with DAX

Online defrag operations for ext4 are hard coded to use the page cache.
See ext4_ioctl() -> ext4_move_extents() -> move_extent_per_page()

When combined with DAX I/O, which circumvents the page cache, this can
result in data corruption.  This was observed with xfstests ext4/307 and
ext4/308.

Fix this by only allowing online defrag for non-DAX files.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ext4/ioctl.c