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Commit 5ec8b75e authored by Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar Aneesh Kumar K.V Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ext3: truncate block allocated on a failed ext3_write_begin 



For blocksize < pagesize we need to remove blocks that got allocated in
block_write_begin() if we fail with ENOSPC for later blocks.
block_write_begin() internally does this if it allocated page locally.
This makes sure we don't have blocks outside inode.i_size during ENOSPC.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6a897cf4

fs/ext3/inode.c

+7 −0
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@@ -1186,6 +1186,13 @@ static int ext3_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping, 
		ext3_journal_stop(handle);

		unlock_page(page);

		page_cache_release(page);

		/*

		 * block_write_begin may have instantiated a few blocks

		 * outside i_size.  Trim these off again. Don't need

		 * i_size_read because we hold i_mutex.

		 */

		if (pos + len > inode->i_size)

			vmtruncate(inode, inode->i_size);

	}

	if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext3_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))

		goto retry;