Re: [patch 6/10] mm: be sure to trim blocks

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jan 16 2007 - 12:37:10 EST


On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 04:25 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> If prepare_write fails with AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, or if commit_write fails, then
> we may have failed the write operation despite prepare_write having
> instantiated blocks past i_size. Fix this, and consolidate the trimming into
> one place.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
>
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/filemap.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -1911,22 +1911,9 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
> }
>
> status = a_ops->prepare_write(file, page, offset, offset+bytes);
> - if (unlikely(status)) {
> - loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode);
> + if (unlikely(status))
> + goto fs_write_aop_error;
>
> - if (status != AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE)
> - unlock_page(page);
> - page_cache_release(page);
> - if (status == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE)
> - continue;
> - /*
> - * prepare_write() may have instantiated a few blocks
> - * outside i_size. Trim these off again.
> - */
> - if (pos + bytes > isize)
> - vmtruncate(inode, isize);
> - break;
> - }
> if (likely(nr_segs == 1))
> copied = filemap_copy_from_user(page, offset,
> buf, bytes);
> @@ -1935,10 +1922,9 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
> cur_iov, iov_offset, bytes);
> flush_dcache_page(page);
> status = a_ops->commit_write(file, page, offset, offset+bytes);
> - if (status == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE) {
> - page_cache_release(page);
> - continue;
> - }
> + if (unlikely(status))
> + goto fs_write_aop_error;
> +

I don't think this is correct, see how status >= 0 is used a few lines
downwards. Perhaps something along the lines of an
is_positive_aop_return() to test on?

> if (likely(copied > 0)) {
> if (!status)
> status = copied;
> @@ -1969,6 +1955,25 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
> break;
> balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
> cond_resched();
> + continue;
> +
> +fs_write_aop_error:
> + if (status != AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE)
> + unlock_page(page);
> + page_cache_release(page);
> +
> + /*
> + * prepare_write() 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 + bytes > inode->i_size)
> + vmtruncate(inode, inode->i_size);
> + if (status == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE)
> + continue;
> + else
> + break;
> +
> } while (count);
> *ppos = pos;


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