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From: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Creating written extents beyond EOF
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:55:31 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d2np6im.fsf@debian-BULLSEYE-live-builder-AMD64> (raw)

Hi Dave,

7684e2c4384d5d1f884b01ab8bff2369e4db0bff
(https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7684e2c4384d5d1f884b01ab8bff2369e4db0bff)
is one of the commits that needs to be backported to 5.4.y stable kernel.

The commit message mentions that we could have written extents beyond EOF. I
am unable to come up with a sequence of commands that could create such
extents.

Can you please explain how a user could create a file having written extents
beyond EOF?

-- 
chandan

             reply	other threads:[~2022-09-01 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-01 13:25 Chandan Babu R [this message]
2022-09-02 21:55 ` Creating written extents beyond EOF Dave Chinner
2022-09-06  6:55   ` Chandan Babu R

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