linux-ext4 - Re: punch-hole should go beyond i

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:23:18 -0700
From:	Allison Henderson <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
CC:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: punch-hole should go beyond i_size

On 01/11/2012 07:55 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 05:02:12PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>> Hi Allison,
>>
>> In thinking about fallocate() on tmpfs, I cross-check with ext4
>> and find this bug in its implementation of FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE:
>>
>> rm -f temp
>> fallocate    -l 4096 temp
>> du temp				# shows 4, right
>> fallocate -p -l 4096 temp
>> du temp				# shows 0, right
>> rm -f temp
>> fallocate -n -l 4096 temp
>> du temp				# shows 4, right
>> fallocate -p -l 4096 temp
>> du temp				# shows 4, wrong
>> rm temp
>>
>> ext4_ext_punch_hole() contains /* No need to punch hole beyond i_size */
>> early return, and trimming to i_size below, but forgets that the other
>> variety of fallocate(), with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set, may have allocated
>> blocks beyond i_size.  They can be removed with ftruncate(), but it is
>> unexpected for fallocate() not to undo its own work, and xfs does so.
>
> I'm pretty sure that's a bug as XFS allows punching holes in extents
> beyond EOF.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.

Oh I see, I'll take a look at it, I think it will be ok to just take out 
the early return.  Thx!

Allison

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