2009-04-28 04:13:55

by Aneesh Kumar K.V

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Subject: [PATCH -V2] Fix sub-block zeroing for buffered writes into unwritten extents.

We need to mark the buffer_head mapping prealloc space
as new during write_begin. Otherwise we don't zero out the
page cache content properly for a partial write. This will
cause file corruption with preallocation.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>

---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 8 ++++++++
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index c6bd6ce..8dfa97a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2323,6 +2323,14 @@ static int ext4_da_get_block_prep(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
set_buffer_delay(bh_result);
} else if (ret > 0) {
bh_result->b_size = (ret << inode->i_blkbits);
+ bh_result->b_bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
+ /*
+ * With sub-block writes into unwritten extents
+ * we also need to mark the buffer as new so that
+ * the unwritten parts of the buffer gets correctly zeroed.
+ */
+ if (buffer_unwritten(bh_result))
+ set_buffer_new(bh_result);
ret = 0;
}

--
tg: (51bec03..) preallocate_corruption (depends on: ext4_lock_group_conversion)