Re: [PATCH] ext3: truncate block allocated on a failed ext3_write_begin

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> For blocksize < pagesize we need to remove blocks that
> got allocte in block_wirte_begin if we fail with ENOSPC
> for later blocks. block_write_begin internally does
> this if it allocated page locally. This make sure
> we don't have blocks outisde inode.i_size during
> ENOSPC

I think this is good; here's an easy testcase:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=fsfile bs=1k count=2048
# mkfs.ext3 -F fsfile
# mkdir mnt
# mount -o loop fsfile mnt/
# dd if=/dev/zero of=mnt/1kfile bs=1k count=1
# cd mnt/
# dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=4k
# cd ..
# umount mnt
# e2fsck -f fsfile
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inode 13, i_size is 974848, should be 976896.  Fix<y>?
...

can you test with that, unless you already have a testcase you've used?

Assuming it fixes it (it should) you can add:

Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

-Eric

> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext3/inode.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
> index ebfec4d..f8424ad 100644
> --- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
> @@ -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;