netfs: clear post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via write
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Short explanation
In the netfs subsystem of the Linux kernel, clearing the post-EOF pagecache was implemented to erase dirty data left behind by writes through mmapped regions.
Cleaning up stale data when extending a file during write operations is crucial for maintaining file integrity and preventing concurrent write conflicts.
What should be done?
- Follow applicable kernel updates and patch sources
- Adhere to vendor advisory recommendations
Chain of evidence and sources
Linux çekirdeğindeki netfs bileşeni, mmap üzerinden yazılan kirli verileri temizlemek üzere düzeltilmiştir.
netfs_clear_stale_post_isize yardımcı fonksiyonu CIFS istemcisi için dışarı aktarılmıştır.
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: clear post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via write Fix netfs to erase the contents of a hole created after the EOF by an ordinary write if dirty data has been previously left there by writes through an mmapped region. Neither the buffered nor the unbuffered/DIO write path clears that stale pagecache. Zero the tail of the folio straddling the EOF before an extending write. That is the only folio that can hold data written past the EOF through an mmap, as pages wholly beyond the EOF can't be faulted in. The folio is zeroed rather than dropped so a concurrent extending write can't lose data. Both write paths downgrade the i_rwsem to shared, so extending writes can run concurrently and the i_size read by the caller may be stale by the time the folio is locked. Re-read i_size under the folio lock and clamp the zeroed range up to it, so a racing write that already put data into the folio isn't clobbered. Wait for any writeback on the folio to finish before zeroing it so that the pagecache isn't modified while it may still be read by the transport during transmission. Honour IOCB_NOWAIT by returning -EAGAIN rather than blocking on the folio lock, on writeback, or in folio_mkclean()'s rmap walk when the folio is mapped. truncate_pagecache() can't be used here: it must be called with the i_rwsem held exclusively, but these write paths only hold it shared, and it would block unconditionally, breaking IOCB_NOWAIT. Callers that hold i_rwsem exclusively for the whole resize (truncate, setattr, fallocate, clone) exclude any genuine concurrent buffered writer, so staleness can instead be decided from the folio's dirty state, as pagecache_isize_extended() already does for filesystems that serialise writes against truncate/setattr via a single i_rwsem. Export netfs_clear_stale_post_isize() helper to handle such case. The helper is required by the CIFS client to fix generic/363.
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