linux-kernel - [PATCH] ext3_getblk should handle HOLE correctly

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Message-Id: <1157564346.23501.49.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:39:06 -0700
From:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
To:	akpm@...l.org
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Will Simoneau <simoneau@....uri.edu>, cmm@...ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH] ext3_getblk should handle HOLE correctly

Hi Andrew,

Its been reported that ext3_getblk() is not doing the right thing
and triggering following WARN():

BUG: warning at fs/ext3/inode.c:1016/ext3_getblk()
 <c01c5140> ext3_getblk+0x98/0x2a6  <c03b2806> md_wakeup_thread
+0x26/0x2a
 <c01c536d> ext3_bread+0x1f/0x88  <c01cedf9> ext3_quota_read+0x136/0x1ae
 <c018b683> v1_read_dqblk+0x61/0xac  <c0188f32> dquot_acquire+0xf6/0x107
 <c01ceaba> ext3_acquire_dquot+0x46/0x68  <c01897d4> dqget+0x155/0x1e7
 <c018a97b> dquot_transfer+0x3e0/0x3e9  <c016fe52> dput+0x23/0x13e
 <c01c7986> ext3_setattr+0xc3/0x240  <c0120f66> current_fs_time
+0x52/0x6a
 <c017320e> notify_change+0x2bd/0x30d  <c0159246> chown_common+0x9c/0xc5
 <c02a222c> strncpy_from_user+0x3b/0x68  <c0167fe6> do_path_lookup
+0xdf/0x266
 <c016841b> __user_walk_fd+0x44/0x5a  <c01592b9> sys_chown+0x4a/0x55
 <c015a43c> vfs_write+0xe7/0x13c  <c01695d4> sys_mkdir+0x1f/0x23
 <c0102a97> syscall_call+0x7/0xb 

Looking at the code, it looks like its not handle HOLE correctly.
It ends up returning -EIO. Here is the patch to fix it.

If we really want to be paranoid, we can allow return values
0 (HOLE), 1 (we asked for one block) and return -EIO for
more than 1 block. But I really don't see a reason for
doing it - all we need is the block# here. (doesn't matter
how many blocks are mapped).

Thanks,
Badari

ext3_get_blocks_handle() returns number of blocks it mapped.
It returns 0 in case of HOLE. ext3_getblk() should handle
HOLE properly (currently its dumping warning stack and
returning -EIO).

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
---
 fs/ext3/inode.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc5/fs/ext3/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc5.orig/fs/ext3/inode.c	2006-08-27 20:41:48.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc5/fs/ext3/inode.c	2006-09-05 15:32:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -1009,11 +1009,12 @@ struct buffer_head *ext3_getblk(handle_t
 	buffer_trace_init(&dummy.b_history);
 	err = ext3_get_blocks_handle(handle, inode, block, 1,
 					&dummy, create, 1);
-	if (err == 1) {
+	/*
+	 * ext3_get_blocks_handle() returns number of blocks
+	 * mapped. 0 in case of a HOLE.
+	 */
+	if (err > 0) {
 		err = 0;
-	} else if (err >= 0) {
-		WARN_ON(1);
-		err = -EIO;
 	}
 	*errp = err;
 	if (!err && buffer_mapped(&dummy)) {


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