Ted,

here's an updated version of Dave Hansen's original commit, but note
that generic/208 won't run on ext4 with data journaling enabled:

  $ MOUNT_OPTIONS='-o data=journal' TEST_DIR=/mnt/test TEST_DEV=/dev/vdb 
./tests/generic/208
  QA output created by 208
  208 not run: ext4 data journaling doesn't support O_DIRECT

Thanks,
Andreas

--

Based on commit 998ef75ddb57 ("fs: do not prefault sys_write() user
buffer pages") by Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>, but:

* Fix generic_perform_write as well as iomap_write_iter.

* copy_page_from_iter_atomic() doesn't trigger page faults, so there's no need
  to disable page faults around it [see commit 9e8c2af96e0d ("callers of
  iov_copy_from_user_atomic() don't need pagecache_disable()")].

* If fault_in_iov_iter_readable() fails to fault in the entire buffer,
  we still want to read everything up to the fault position.  This depends on
  commit a6294593e8a1 ("iov_iter: Turn iov_iter_fault_in_readable into
  fault_in_iov_iter_readable").

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agrue...@redhat.com>
---
 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c | 20 +++++++-------------
 mm/filemap.c           | 20 +++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
index 1753c26c8e76..d8809cd9ab31 100644
--- a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
+++ b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
@@ -744,17 +744,6 @@ static loff_t iomap_write_iter(struct iomap_iter *iter, 
struct iov_iter *i)
                if (bytes > length)
                        bytes = length;
 
-               /*
-                * Bring in the user page that we'll copy from _first_.
-                * Otherwise there's a nasty deadlock on copying from the
-                * same page as we're writing to, without it being marked
-                * up-to-date.
-                */
-               if (unlikely(fault_in_iov_iter_readable(i, bytes))) {
-                       status = -EFAULT;
-                       break;
-               }
-
                status = iomap_write_begin(iter, pos, bytes, &page);
                if (unlikely(status))
                        break;
@@ -777,9 +766,14 @@ static loff_t iomap_write_iter(struct iomap_iter *iter, 
struct iov_iter *i)
                         * halfway through, might be a race with munmap,
                         * might be severe memory pressure.
                         */
-                       if (copied)
+                       if (copied) {
                                bytes = copied;
-                       goto again;
+                               goto again;
+                       }
+                       if (fault_in_iov_iter_readable(i, bytes) != bytes)
+                               goto again;
+                       status = -EFAULT;
+                       break;
                }
                pos += status;
                written += status;
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 4dd5edcd39fd..467cdb7d086d 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -3751,17 +3751,6 @@ ssize_t generic_perform_write(struct file *file,
                                                iov_iter_count(i));
 
 again:
-               /*
-                * Bring in the user page that we will copy from _first_.
-                * Otherwise there's a nasty deadlock on copying from the
-                * same page as we're writing to, without it being marked
-                * up-to-date.
-                */
-               if (unlikely(fault_in_iov_iter_readable(i, bytes))) {
-                       status = -EFAULT;
-                       break;
-               }
-
                if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
                        status = -EINTR;
                        break;
@@ -3794,9 +3783,14 @@ ssize_t generic_perform_write(struct file *file,
                         * halfway through, might be a race with munmap,
                         * might be severe memory pressure.
                         */
-                       if (copied)
+                       if (copied) {
                                bytes = copied;
-                       goto again;
+                               goto again;
+                       }
+                       if (fault_in_iov_iter_readable(i, bytes) != bytes)
+                               goto again;
+                       status = -EFAULT;
+                       break;
                }
                pos += status;
                written += status;
-- 
2.26.3

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