If all pages are deleted from the mapping by memory reclaim and also moved to the cleancache:
__delete_from_page_cache (no shadow case) unaccount_page_cache_page cleancache_put_page page_cache_delete mapping->nrpages -= nr (nrpages becomes 0) We don't clean the cleancache for an inode after final file truncation (removal). truncate_inode_pages_final check (nrpages || nrexceptional) is false no truncate_inode_pages no cleancache_invalidate_inode(mapping) These way when reading the new file created with same inode we may get these trash leftover pages from cleancache and see wrong data instead of the contents of the new file. Fix it by always doing truncate_inode_pages which is already ready for nrpages == 0 && nrexceptional == 0 case and just invalidates inode. v2: add comment Fixes: commit 91b0abe36a7b ("mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache") To: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux...@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Vasily Averin <v...@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabi...@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomi...@virtuozzo.com> --- mm/truncate.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c index 45d68e90b703..2c5285767ce5 100644 --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/mm/truncate.c @@ -517,9 +517,14 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_final(struct address_space *mapping) */ xa_lock_irq(&mapping->i_pages); xa_unlock_irq(&mapping->i_pages); - - truncate_inode_pages(mapping, 0); } + + /* + * Cleancache needs notification even if there are no pages or shadow + * entries, else we will leave leftover pages in the cleancache for + * a deleted inode. + */ + truncate_inode_pages(mapping, 0); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(truncate_inode_pages_final); -- 2.17.1