linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 3/6] f2fs: skip truncate when verity in progress in ->write

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Message-ID: <e5d57ee4-f022-12ca-7f09-e4b8ef86c6b6@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:25:33 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>, <linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] f2fs: skip truncate when verity in progress in
 ->write_begin()

Hi Eric,

On 2019/8/12 5:35, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> When an error (e.g. ENOSPC) occurs during f2fs_write_begin() when called
> from f2fs_write_merkle_tree_block(), skip truncating the file.  i_size
> is not meaningful in this case, and the truncation is handled by
> f2fs_end_enable_verity() instead.
> 
> Fixes: 60d7bf0f790f ("f2fs: add fs-verity support")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> ---
>  fs/f2fs/data.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> index 3f525f8a3a5fa..00b03fb87bd9b 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> @@ -2476,7 +2476,7 @@ static void f2fs_write_failed(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t to)
>  	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
>  	loff_t i_size = i_size_read(inode);
>  
> -	if (to > i_size) {

Maybe adding one single line comment to mention that it's redundant/unnecessary
truncation here is better, if I didn't misunderstand this.

Thanks,

> +	if (to > i_size && !f2fs_verity_in_progress(inode)) {
>  		down_write(&F2FS_I(inode)->i_gc_rwsem[WRITE]);
>  		down_write(&F2FS_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem);
>  
>