nilfs2: make block erasure safe in nilfs_finish_roll_forward()

The implementation of writing a zero-fill block in
nilfs_finish_roll_forward() is not safe.  The buffer is being cleared
without acquiring a lock or setting the uptodate flag, so theoretically,
between the time the buffer's data is cleared and the time it is written
back to the block device using sync_dirty_buffer(), that zero data can be
undone by concurrent block device reads.

Since this buffer points to a location that has been read from disk once,
the uptodate flag will most likely remain, but since it was obtained with
__getblk(), that is not guaranteed.  In other words, this is exceptional,
and this function itself is not normally called (only once when mounting
after a specific pattern of unclean shutdown), so it is highly unlikely
that this will actually cause a problem.

Anyway, eliminate this potential race issue by protecting the clearing of
buffer data with a buffer lock and setting the buffer's uptodate flag
within the protected section.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240511002942.9608-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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