Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 2 authors, 2014-09-25

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Fix mmap data corruption when blocksize < pagesize

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: 2014-09-24 08:45:19
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, linux-xfs

On Tue 23-09-14 17:03:23, Jan Kara wrote:
Use block_create_hole() when hole is being created in a file so that
->page_mkwrite() will get called for the partial tail page if it is
mmaped (see the first patch in the series for details).
  Just out of curiosity I did a change similar to this one for ext4 to XFS
and indeed it fixed generic/030 test failures for XFS with blocksize 1k.

								Honza

PS: I forgot to CC xfs list in the original posting. You can find the VFS
    patch e.g. at http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg78976.html
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 3aa26e9117c4..fdcb007c2c9e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4536,8 +4536,12 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 				ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
 				goto err_out;
 			}
-		} else
+		} else {
+			loff_t old_size = inode->i_size;
+
 			i_size_write(inode, attr->ia_size);
+			block_create_hole(inode, old_size, inode->i_size);
+		}
 
 		/*
 		 * Blocks are going to be removed from the inode. Wait
-- 
1.8.1.4
-- 
Jan Kara [off-list ref]
SUSE Labs, CR

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