linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2.6.32.7] ext4: number of blocks for fiemap

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:33:03 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	tytso@....edu, Leonard Michlmayr <leonard.michlmayr@...il.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Mailinglist" 
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 474597@...s.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32.7] ext4: number of blocks for fiemap

tytso@....edu wrote:
> Sorry for the delay in attending to this patch.  This is what I've
> added to the ext4 patch queue.
> 
> 						- Ted
> 
> commit 7f9aeb212e41ea20f61061d51ad11ee2449853f1
> Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> Date:   Mon Feb 15 14:48:32 2010 -0500

Ted, it looks like perhaps you accidentally reassigned authorship for
this patch?

-Eric

>     ext4: correctly calculate number of blocks for fiemap
>     
>     ext4_fiemap() rounds the length of the requested range down to
>     blocksize, which is is not the true number of blocks that cover the
>     requested region.  This problem is especially impressive if the user
>     requests only the first byte of a file: not a single extent will be
>     reported.
>     
>     We fix this by calculating the last block of the region and then
>     subtract to find the number of blocks in the extents.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Leonard Michlmayr <leonard.michlmayr@...il.com>
>     Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index bd80891..bc9860f 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -3768,7 +3768,6 @@ int ext4_fiemap(struct inode *inode, struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo,
>  		__u64 start, __u64 len)
>  {
>  	ext4_lblk_t start_blk;
> -	ext4_lblk_t len_blks;
>  	int error = 0;
>  
>  	/* fallback to generic here if not in extents fmt */
> @@ -3782,8 +3781,11 @@ int ext4_fiemap(struct inode *inode, struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo,
>  	if (fieinfo->fi_flags & FIEMAP_FLAG_XATTR) {
>  		error = ext4_xattr_fiemap(inode, fieinfo);
>  	} else {
> +		ext4_lblk_t last_blk, len_blks;
> +
>  		start_blk = start >> inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits;
> -		len_blks = len >> inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits;
> +		last_blk = (start + len - 1) >> inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits;
> +		len_blks = last_blk - start_blk + 1;
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * Walk the extent tree gathering extent information.
> --
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