ext4: prevent data corruption with journaling + DAX

The current code has the potential for data corruption when changing an
inode's journaling mode, as that can result in a subsequent unsafe change
in S_DAX.

I've captured an instance of this data corruption in the following fstest:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9948377/

Prevent this data corruption from happening by disallowing changes to the
journaling mode if the '-o dax' mount option was used.  This means that for
a given filesystem we could have a mix of inodes using either DAX or
data journaling, but whatever state the inodes are in will be held for the
duration of the mount.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index afb66d4ab5cf..b0b754b37c36 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -290,10 +290,20 @@ flags_err:
 	if (err)
 		goto flags_out;
 
-	if ((jflag ^ oldflags) & (EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL))
+	if ((jflag ^ oldflags) & (EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL)) {
+		/*
+		 * Changes to the journaling mode can cause unsafe changes to
+		 * S_DAX if we are using the DAX mount option.
+		 */
+		if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, DAX)) {
+			err = -EBUSY;
+			goto flags_out;
+		}
+
 		err = ext4_change_inode_journal_flag(inode, jflag);
-	if (err)
-		goto flags_out;
+		if (err)
+			goto flags_out;
+	}
 	if (migrate) {
 		if (flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)
 			err = ext4_ext_migrate(inode);