linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH][RESEND] tests: add another test for uninit extents past eof

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Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:10:46 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RESEND] tests: add another test for uninit extents past
 eof

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:35:18AM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> Commit d3f32c2db8 was intended to detect extents found outside their
> proper location in the extent tree, including invalid extents at the
> end of an extent block.  However, it incorrectly reported legal
> uninitialized extents created by fallocate() at the end of file with
> the FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE flag as false positives.  xfstests
> generic/263 (among others) caught this problem, while the e2fsprogs
> test f_uninit_ext_past_eof did not.  The latter test failed to
> detect the problem in part because it uses a test file whose i_size
> is 0.
> 
> Add a test derived from the fsx-based test case in xfstests
> generic/263 consisting of a file with non-zero length, more than
> four extents total, and two uninitialized extents past EOF to
> reliably reproduce commit d3f32c2db8's false positive behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.

						- Ted
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