linux-ext4 - [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_bio_write

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Message-Id: <1323235287-29806-2-git-send-email-xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed,  7 Dec 2011 13:21:27 +0800
From:	Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, hughd@...gle.com, tytso@....edu,
	Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_bio_write_page handle EOF correctly

We need to zero out part of a page which beyond EOF before setting uptodate,
otherwise, mapread or write will see non-zero data beyond EOF.

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
---
 fs/ext4/page-io.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 235b79d..9e145b8 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -385,6 +385,18 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
 
 		block_end = block_start + blocksize;
 		if (block_start >= len) {
+			/*
+			 * Comments copied from block_write_full_page_endio:
+			 *
+			 * The page straddles i_size.  It must be zeroed out on
+			 * each and every writepage invocation because it may
+			 * be mmapped.  "A file is mapped in multiples of the
+			 * page size.  For a file that is not a multiple of
+			 * the  page size, the remaining memory is zeroed when
+			 * mapped, and writes to that region are not written
+			 * out to the file."
+			 */
+			zero_user_segment(page, block_start, block_end);
 			clear_buffer_dirty(bh);
 			set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
 			continue;
-- 
1.7.5.1

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