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Message-Id: <1244622665-7470-25-git-send-email-swhiteho@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:31:05 +0100
From:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com
Cc:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 24/24] GFS2: Fix cache coherency between truncate and O_DIRECT read

If a page was partially zeroed as the result of a truncate, then it was
not being correctly marked dirty. This resulted in the deleted data
reappearing if the file was read back via direct I/O.

Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/bmap.c b/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
index 1153a07..3297635 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ static int gfs2_block_truncate_page(struct address_space *mapping)
 		gfs2_trans_add_bh(ip->i_gl, bh, 0);
 
 	zero_user(page, offset, length);
-
+	mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
 unlock:
 	unlock_page(page);
 	page_cache_release(page);
-- 
1.6.0.6

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