Commit 69c91832 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Ben Hutchings

ext4: fix zeroing of page during writeback

commit eeece469 upstream.

Tail of a page straddling inode size must be zeroed when being written
out due to POSIX requirement that modifications of mmaped page beyond
inode size must not be written to the file. ext4_bio_write_page() did
this only for blocks fully beyond inode size but didn't properly zero
blocks partially beyond inode size. Fix this.

The problem has been uncovered by mmap_11-4 test in openposix test suite
(part of LTP).
Reported-by: default avatarXiaoguang Wang <wangxg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Fixes: 5a0dc736
Fixes: bd2d0210Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - block_end was used instead of block_start + blocksize]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 722ee3dc
......@@ -386,24 +386,24 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
set_page_writeback(page);
ClearPageError(page);
/*
* Comments copied from block_write_full_page_endio:
*
* The page straddles i_size. It must be zeroed out on each and every
* writepage invocation because it may be mmapped. "A file is mapped
* in multiples of the page size. For a file that is not a multiple of
* the page size, the remaining memory is zeroed when mapped, and
* writes to that region are not written out to the file."
*/
if (len < PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)
zero_user_segment(page, len, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
for (bh = head = page_buffers(page), block_start = 0;
bh != head || !block_start;
block_start = block_end, bh = bh->b_this_page) {
block_end = block_start + blocksize;
if (block_start >= len) {
/*
* Comments copied from block_write_full_page_endio:
*
* The page straddles i_size. It must be zeroed out on
* each and every writepage invocation because it may
* be mmapped. "A file is mapped in multiples of the
* page size. For a file that is not a multiple of
* the page size, the remaining memory is zeroed when
* mapped, and writes to that region are not written
* out to the file."
*/
zero_user_segment(page, block_start, block_end);
clear_buffer_dirty(bh);
set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
continue;
......
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