[CHECKER] ext3 bug in ftruncate() with O_SYNC?

[Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>]

Hi.  We're doing some checking on Linux file systems and found
what appears to be a bug in the Linux 2.6.11 implementation of
ext3: when ftruncate shrinks a file, using a file descriptor
opened with O_SYNC, the file size is not updated synchronously.
I've appended a test program that illustrates the problem.  After
this program runs, the file system shows a file with length 1031,
not 4 as would be expected if the ftruncate completed
synchronously.  (If I insert an fsync before closing the file,
the file length is correct.)

Does this look like a bug to you guys?

Thanks,

Ben.

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#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <assert.h>

#define CHECK(ret) if(ret < 0) {perror(0); assert(0);}

int systemf(const char *fmt, ...)
{
	static char cmd[1024];

	va_list ap;
	va_start(ap, fmt);
	vsprintf(cmd, fmt, ap);
	va_end(ap);
	
	fprintf(stderr, "running cmd \"%s\"\n", cmd);
	return system(cmd);
}

main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	int ret, fd;
	systemf("umount /dev/sbd0");
	systemf("sbin/mkfs.ext3 -F -j -b 1024 /dev/sbd0 2048");
	systemf("sbin/e2fsck.shared -y /dev/sbd0");
	systemf("mount -t ext3 /dev/sbd0 /mnt/sbd0 -o commit=65535");
	systemf("umount /dev/sbd0");
	systemf("mount -t ext3 /dev/sbd0 /mnt/sbd0 -o commit=65535");
	
	fd = open("/mnt/sbd0/0001", O_CREAT | O_RDWR | O_SYNC, 0700);
	CHECK(fd);
	ret = write(fd, "foobar", 6);
	CHECK(ret);
	ret = ftruncate(fd, 1031);
	CHECK(ret);
	ret = pwrite(fd, "bazzle", 6, 1031 - 6);
	CHECK(ret);
	ret = ftruncate(fd, 4);
	CHECK(ret);
        ret = close(fd);
        CHECK(ret);

#if 0
	{
		#include "../sbd/sbd.h"
		int sbd_fd = open("/dev/sbd0", O_RDONLY);
		ret = ioctl(sbd_fd, SBD_COPY_DISK, 1);
		CHECK(ret);
		close(sbd_fd);
	}
#else
	systemf("reboot -f -n");
#endif
	return 0;
}



-- 
Ben Pfaff 
email: blp@cs.stanford.edu
web: http://benpfaff.org