linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix SEEK_HOLE/SEEK

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Date:   Sat, 5 Aug 2017 18:10:20 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA for blocksize < pagesize

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 01:16:37PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff() does not properly handle a situation when
> starting index is in the middle of a page and blocksize < pagesize. The
> following command shows the bug on filesystem with 1k blocksize:
> 
>   xfs_io -f -c "falloc 0 4k" \
>             -c "pwrite 1k 1k" \
>             -c "pwrite 3k 1k" \
>             -c "seek -a -r 0" foo
> 
> In this example, neither lseek(fd, 1024, SEEK_HOLE) nor lseek(fd, 2048,
> SEEK_DATA) will return the correct result.
> 
> Fix the problem by neglecting buffers in a page before starting offset.
> 
> Reported-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
> CC: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted