Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:45:51 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, Mingming <cmm@...ibm.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add flag to files with blocks intentionally past EOF

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:58:47 -0600, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> wrote:
> Mingming wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 15:45 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> From: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@...gle.com>
> >>
> >> fallocate() may potentially instantiate blocks past EOF, depending
> >> on the flags used when it is called.
> >>
> >> e2fsck currently has a test for blocks past i_size, and it
> >> sometimes trips up - noticeably on xfstests 013 which runs fsstress.
> >>
> >> This patch from Jiayang does fix it up for me - it (along with
> >> e2fsprogs updates and other patches recently from Aneesh) has
> >> survived many fsstress runs in a row.
> >>
> >> The setattr interface may also be used to clear the flag and remove
> >> any blocks past EOF.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> (just resending this since it probably got lost in the previous
> >> thread - Jiaying didn't have a SOB line, but maybe that should
> >> be added.  I have included the proper From: line for authorship)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> >> index 874d169..4c7cd9b 100644
> >> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> >> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> >> @@ -284,10 +284,11 @@ struct flex_groups {
> >>  #define EXT4_TOPDIR_FL			0x00020000 /* Top of directory hierarchies*/
> >>  #define EXT4_HUGE_FILE_FL               0x00040000 /* Set to each huge file */
> >>  #define EXT4_EXTENTS_FL			0x00080000 /* Inode uses extents */
> >> +#define EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL		0x00400000 /* Blocks allocated beyond EOF (bit reserved in fs.h) */
> >>  #define EXT4_RESERVED_FL		0x80000000 /* reserved for ext4 lib */
> >>
> >> -#define EXT4_FL_USER_VISIBLE		0x000BDFFF /* User visible flags */
> >> -#define EXT4_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE		0x000B80FF /* User modifiable flags */
> >> +#define EXT4_FL_USER_VISIBLE		0x004BDFFF /* User visible flags */
> >> +#define EXT4_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE		0x004B80FF /* User modifiable flags */
> >>
> >>  /* Flags that should be inherited by new inodes from their parent. */
> >>  #define EXT4_FL_INHERITED (EXT4_SECRM_FL | EXT4_UNRM_FL | EXT4_COMPR_FL |\
> >> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> >> index 765a482..e7d5ba2 100644
> >> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> >> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> >> @@ -3185,7 +3185,7 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
> >>  {
> >>  	struct ext4_ext_path *path = NULL;
> >>  	struct ext4_extent_header *eh;
> >> -	struct ext4_extent newex, *ex;
> >> +	struct ext4_extent newex, *ex, *last_ex;
> >>  	ext4_fsblk_t newblock;
> >>  	int err = 0, depth, ret, cache_type;
> >>  	unsigned int allocated = 0;
> >> @@ -3366,6 +3366,14 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
> >>  					EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN;;
> >>  		}
> >>  	}
> >> +
> >> +	if (unlikely(inode->i_flags & EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL)) {
> >> +		BUG_ON(!eh->eh_entries);
> > 
> > Perhaps BUG_ON() is too strong? Maybe add some warning messages first.
> 
> perhaps ... not sure how we would get here w/ no entries.
> 
> ...
> 
> >> @@ -5315,6 +5321,11 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
> >>  				goto err_out;
> >>  			}
> >>  		}
> >> +		if ((inode->i_flags & EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL)) {
> >> +			rc = vmtruncate(inode, attr->ia_size);
> >> +			if (rc)
> >> +				goto err_out;
> >> +		}
> >>  	}
> >>
> > 
> > I am a little lost why doing vmtruncate here...
> 
> Hm first off I assume vmtruncate will clear blocks past that size,
> but tonight I'm not seeing how it gets there.
> 
> Anyway, it looks like any setting of the size, truncate up or down
> (or to current size) will clear any blocks past EOF.


yes. earlier we were doing truncate only when attr->ia_size <
inode->i_size. Now we do when we find that inode have EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL
set. 


> 
> >>  	rc = inode_setattr(inode, attr);
> >> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> >> index b63d193..71f578e 100644
> >> --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> >> +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> >> @@ -92,6 +92,16 @@ long ext4_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> >>  			flags &= ~EXT4_EXTENTS_FL;
> >>  		}
> >>
> >> +		if (flags & EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL) {
> >> +			/* we don't support adding EOFBLOCKS flag */
> >> +			if (!(oldflags & EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL)) {
> >> +				err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >> +				goto flags_out;
> >> +			}
> >> +		} else if (oldflags & EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL)
> >> +			/* free the space reserved with fallocate KEEPSIZE */
> >> +			vmtruncate(inode, inode->i_size);
> >> +
> >>  		handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, 1);
> >>  		if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
> >>  			err = PTR_ERR(handle);
> > 
> > And here...
> 
> Well here we are clearing the EOFBLOCKS flag so we'd want to clear any
> blocks past EOF.... but now, does vmtruncate do that?
> 
> Ok, count me as confused too, but mostly jsut so far as how does
> vmtruncate clear the blocks beyond eof.  I guess I glossed over this when reading it.

Yes. vmtruncate ends up calling ext4_truncate which will do that it not
that is a bug. When we failed to copy for user space in case of write we
did call vmtruncate to free up the allocated blocks. So i guess it
should be working. But we should be able to check that easily.
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