linux-kernel - [086/165] ext4: Ensure zeroout blocks have no dirty metadata

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Message-Id: <20100730171507.454213622@clark.site>
Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:15:14 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@...gle.com>,
	"Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [086/165] ext4: Ensure zeroout blocks have no dirty metadata

2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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commit 515f41c33a9d44a964264c9511ad2c869af1fac3 upstream (as of v2.6.33-rc3)

This fixes a bug (found by Curt Wohlgemuth) in which new blocks
returned from an extent created with ext4_ext_zeroout() can have dirty
metadata still associated with them.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 fs/ext4/extents.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -3029,6 +3029,14 @@ out:
 	return err;
 }
 
+static void unmap_underlying_metadata_blocks(struct block_device *bdev,
+			sector_t block, int count)
+{
+	int i;
+	for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
+                unmap_underlying_metadata(bdev, block + i);
+}
+
 static int
 ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 			ext4_lblk_t iblock, unsigned int max_blocks,
@@ -3104,6 +3112,18 @@ out:
 	} else
 		allocated = ret;
 	set_buffer_new(bh_result);
+	/*
+	 * if we allocated more blocks than requested
+	 * we need to make sure we unmap the extra block
+	 * allocated. The actual needed block will get
+	 * unmapped later when we find the buffer_head marked
+	 * new.
+	 */
+	if (allocated > max_blocks) {
+		unmap_underlying_metadata_blocks(inode->i_sb->s_bdev,
+					newblock + max_blocks,
+					allocated - max_blocks);
+	}
 map_out:
 	set_buffer_mapped(bh_result);
 out1:


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