NFS: Fix another fsync() issue after a server reboot

Currently, when the writeback code detects a server reboot, it redirties
any pages that were not committed to disk, and it sets the flag
NFS_CONTEXT_RESEND_WRITES in the nfs_open_context of the file descriptor
that dirtied the file. While this allows the file descriptor in question
to redrive its own writes, it violates the fsync() requirement that we
should be synchronising all writes to disk.
While the problem is infrequent, we do see corner cases where an
untimely server reboot causes the fsync() call to abandon its attempt to
sync data to disk and causing data corruption issues due to missed error
conditions or similar.

In order to tighted up the client's ability to deal with this situation
without introducing livelocks, add a counter that records the number of
times pages are redirtied due to a server reboot-like condition, and use
that in fsync() to redrive the sync to disk.

Fixes: 2197e9b06c22 ("NFS: Fix up fsync() when the server rebooted")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
index 54237a231687..749e5487df50 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -221,8 +221,10 @@ nfs_file_fsync_commit(struct file *file, int datasync)
 int
 nfs_file_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
 {
-	struct nfs_open_context *ctx = nfs_file_open_context(file);
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
+	struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode);
+	long save_nredirtied = atomic_long_read(&nfsi->redirtied_pages);
+	long nredirtied;
 	int ret;
 
 	trace_nfs_fsync_enter(inode);
@@ -237,15 +239,10 @@ nfs_file_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
 		ret = pnfs_sync_inode(inode, !!datasync);
 		if (ret != 0)
 			break;
-		if (!test_and_clear_bit(NFS_CONTEXT_RESEND_WRITES, &ctx->flags))
+		nredirtied = atomic_long_read(&nfsi->redirtied_pages);
+		if (nredirtied == save_nredirtied)
 			break;
-		/*
-		 * If nfs_file_fsync_commit detected a server reboot, then
-		 * resend all dirty pages that might have been covered by
-		 * the NFS_CONTEXT_RESEND_WRITES flag
-		 */
-		start = 0;
-		end = LLONG_MAX;
+		save_nredirtied = nredirtied;
 	}
 
 	trace_nfs_fsync_exit(inode, ret);