linux-ext4 - Re: [patch 17/41] ext2 convert to new aops.

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 14:45:05 +0200
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 17/41] ext2 convert to new aops.

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:06:36PM +1000, npiggin@...e.de wrote:
> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Linux Filesystems <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>

Found a problem in ext2 pagecache directory handling. Trivial fix follows.
Longer-term, it might be better to rework these things a bit so they can
directly use the pagecache_write_begin/pagecache_write_end accessors.
---
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext2/dir.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext2/dir.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext2/dir.c
@@ -70,10 +70,18 @@ static int ext2_commit_chunk(struct page
 
 	dir->i_version++;
 	block_write_end(NULL, mapping, pos, len, len, page, NULL);
+
+	if (pos+len > dir->i_size) {
+		i_size_write(dir, pos+len);
+		mark_inode_dirty(dir);
+	}
+
 	if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
 		err = write_one_page(page, 1);
 	else
 		unlock_page(page);
+	mark_page_accessed(page);
+
 	return err;
 }
 
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