-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 2a8964d63d50dd2d65d71d342bc7fb6ef4117614)
The BH_Unwritten flag indicates that the buffer is allocated on disk
but has not been written; that is, the disk was part of a persistent
preallocation area. That flag should only be set when a get_blocks()
function is looking up a inode's logical to physical block mapping.
When ext4_get_blocks_wrap() is called with create=1, the uninitialized
extent is converted into an initialized one, so the BH_Unwritten flag
is no longer appropriate. Hence, we need to make sure the
BH_Unwritten is not left set, since the combination of BH_Mapped and
BH_Unwritten is not allowed; among other things, it will result ext4's
get_block() to be called over and over again during the write_begin
phase of write(2).
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1085,6 +1085,7 @@ int ext4_get_blocks_wrap(handle_t *handl
int retval;
clear_buffer_mapped(bh);
+ clear_buffer_unwritten(bh);
/*
* Try to see if we can get the block without requesting
@@ -1115,6 +1116,18 @@ int ext4_get_blocks_wrap(handle_t *handl
return retval;
/*
+ * When we call get_blocks without the create flag, the
+ * BH_Unwritten flag could have gotten set if the blocks
+ * requested were part of a uninitialized extent. We need to
+ * clear this flag now that we are committed to convert all or
+ * part of the uninitialized extent to be an initialized
+ * extent. This is because we need to avoid the combination
+ * of BH_Unwritten and BH_Mapped flags being simultaneously
+ * set on the buffer_head.
+ */
+ clear_buffer_unwritten(bh);
+
+ /*
* New blocks allocate and/or writing to uninitialized extent
* will possibly result in updating i_data, so we take
* the write lock of i_data_sem, and call get_blocks()