cachefiles, netfs: Fix write to partial block at EOF
Because it uses DIO writes, cachefiles is unable to make a write to the backing file if that write is not aligned to and sized according to the backing file's DIO block alignment. This makes it tricky to handle a write to the cache where the EOF on the network file is not correctly aligned. To get around this, netfslib attempts to tell the driver it is calling how much more data there is available beyond the EOF that it can use to pad the write (netfslib preclears the part of the folio above the EOF). However, it tries to tell the cache what the maximum length is, but doesn't calculate this correctly; and, in any case, cachefiles actually ignores the value and just skips the block. Fix this by: (1) Change the value passed to indicate the amount of extra data that can be added to the operation (now ->submit_extendable_to). This is much simpler to calculate as it's just the end of the folio minus the top of the data within the folio - rather than having to account for data spread over multiple folios. (2) Make cachefiles add some of this data if the subrequest it is given ends at the network file's i_size if the extra data is sufficient to pad out to a whole block. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-22-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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