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Commit 68eb3db0 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara
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ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data



When ext3_write_begin fails after allocating some blocks or
generic_perform_write fails to copy data to write, we truncate blocks already
instantiated beyond i_size. Although these blocks were never inside i_size, we
have to truncate pagecache of these blocks so that corresponding buffers get
unmapped. Otherwise subsequent __block_prepare_write (called because we are
retrying the write) will find the buffers mapped, not call ->get_block, and
thus the page will be backed by already freed blocks leading to filesystem and
data corruption.

Reported-by: default avatarJames Y Knight <foom@fuhm.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
parent 5a20bdfc
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