linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix off-by-one error when writing back pages before dio read

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 09:53:05 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix off-by-one error when writing back pages
 before dio read

On Mon 22-05-17 18:34:41, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> The 'lend' argument of filemap_write_and_wait_range() is inclusive, so
> we need to subtract 1 from pos + count.
> 
> Note that 'count' is guaranteed to be nonzero since
> ext4_file_read_iter() returns early when given a 0 count.
> 
> Fixes: 16c54688592c ("ext4: Allow parallel DIO reads")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Yeah. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index 7c6e715b4d2e..3080ea82dd6d 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -3710,7 +3710,7 @@ static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO_read(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
>  	 */
>  	inode_lock_shared(inode);
>  	ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, iocb->ki_pos,
> -					   iocb->ki_pos + count);
> +					   iocb->ki_pos + count - 1);
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto out_unlock;
>  	ret = __blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, inode->i_sb->s_bdev,
> -- 
> 2.13.0.219.gdb65acc882-goog
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR