linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: When reading from fallocated blocks make sure we return zero.

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Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:43:04 -0800
From:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: When reading from fallocated blocks make sure we
	return zero.

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 23:46 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> fallocate blocks are considered as sparse area and read from them should
> return zero. ext4_ext_get_blocks should return zero for read request.
> 

The patch itself looks harmless, but I still don't see how this could
fix the problem you described at irc: a write hit a BUG_ON() in
fs/buffer.c saying the buffer is not mapped. Could you add more details
here?

Thanks
Mingming
 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/extents.c |    8 +++++++-
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index 3efbfd1..5b22f71 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -2379,8 +2379,14 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  			}
>  			if (create == EXT4_CREATE_UNINITIALIZED_EXT)
>  				goto out;
> -			if (!create)
> +			if (!create) {
> +				/*
> +				 * read request should return zero blocks
> +				 * allocated
> +				 */
> +				allocated = 0;
>  				goto out2;
> +			}
> 
>  			ret = ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle, inode,
>  								path, iblock,

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