Re: [5.15 REGRESSION] iomap: Fix inline extent handling in iomap_readpage

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 03:52:01PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

Hmm, that doesn't make sense to me: the filesystem doesn't know that
iomap_readpage will pad to page boundaries. This happens at the iomap
layer, so the iomap layer should also deal with the consequences.
We're using different alignment rules here and for direct I/O, so that
makes fake-aligning the extent size in iomap_begin even more
questionable.

"Fixing" the extent size the filesystem returns would also break
direct I/O. We could add some additional padding code to
iomap_dio_inline_iter to deal with that, but currently, there's no
need for that.

The iomap mapping sizes are read-only to iomap for a good reason.  You
can't just break that design.