From: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
To: fuse-devel@lists.linux.dev
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cding@ddn.com,
jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com
Subject: [PATCH] fuse: invalidate the correct range after O_APPEND direct write
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:07:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260819090728.3331501-1-libaokun@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
fuse_direct_write_iter() captures pos before generic_write_checks(),
which moves ki_pos to EOF for O_APPEND writes:
fuse_direct_write_iter()
{
pos = iocb->ki_pos; /* 0 (user-supplied) */
generic_write_checks(); /* ki_pos -> EOF */
fuse_direct_io(); /* writes at EOF, correct */
invalidate(pos, pos + res); /* [0, res) -- wrong */
}
The post-write invalidation targets a stale range instead of the
actual written range at EOF.
This can cause data inconsistency when the file size is not
page-aligned. The tail page straddling EOF has a valid portion
before EOF that concurrent readers can fault back in during the
DIO write window:
Tail page (file size X not page-aligned):
page_start X (EOF) page_end
|--- valid data ----|-- stale --|
CPU0 (O_APPEND DIO writer) CPU1 (buffered reader)
-------------------------- ----------------------
invalidate [X, X+len)
tail page evicted
FUSE_WRITE in flight ...
read [page_start, X)
tail page re-faulted
[X, page_end) = stale
FUSE_WRITE completes
i_size = X + len
invalidate [0, len) <- WRONG
tail page still cached
read [X, X+len)
hits stale tail page
returns old data
Fix by reading pos back from iocb->ki_pos after generic_write_checks(),
as generic_file_direct_write() does.
Also fix a typo in the comment ("may have" -> "may have competed").
Fixes: 2b0408d0284f ("fuse: invalidate page cache after DIO and async DIO writes")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
---
fs/fuse/file.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
index 45ebd1b15874..d12a9fdf770e 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/file.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
@@ -1789,13 +1789,14 @@ static ssize_t fuse_direct_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
{
struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
- loff_t pos = iocb->ki_pos;
ssize_t res;
bool exclusive;
fuse_dio_lock(iocb, from, &exclusive);
res = generic_write_checks(iocb, from);
if (res > 0) {
+ loff_t pos = iocb->ki_pos;
+
task_io_account_write(res);
if (!is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
res = fuse_direct_IO(iocb, from);
@@ -1810,7 +1811,7 @@ static ssize_t fuse_direct_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
/*
* As in generic_file_direct_write(), invalidate after
* write, to invalidate read-ahead cache that may have
- * with the write.
+ * competed with the write.
*/
invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
pos >> PAGE_SHIFT,
--
2.43.7
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-19 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-19 9:07 Baokun Li [this message]
2026-08-19 10:14 ` Bernd Schubert
2026-08-19 12:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
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