linux-kernel - [11/87] Btrfs: deal with short returns from copy_from

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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:06:10 -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,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Subject: [11/87] Btrfs: deal with short returns from copy_from_user

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

------------------

From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>

commit 31339acd07b4ba687906702085127895a56eb920 upstream.

When copy_from_user is only able to copy some of the bytes we requested,
we may end up creating a partially up to date page.  To avoid garbage in
the page, we need to treat a partial copy as a zero length copy.

This makes the rest of the file_write code drop the page and
retry the whole copy instead of marking the partially up to
date page as dirty.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 fs/btrfs/file.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
@@ -69,6 +69,19 @@ static noinline int btrfs_copy_from_user
 
 		/* Flush processor's dcache for this page */
 		flush_dcache_page(page);
+
+		/*
+		 * if we get a partial write, we can end up with
+		 * partially up to date pages.  These add
+		 * a lot of complexity, so make sure they don't
+		 * happen by forcing this copy to be retried.
+		 *
+		 * The rest of the btrfs_file_write code will fall
+		 * back to page at a time copies after we return 0.
+		 */
+		if (!PageUptodate(page) && copied < count)
+			copied = 0;
+
 		iov_iter_advance(i, copied);
 		write_bytes -= copied;
 		total_copied += copied;


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