linux-kernel - [PATCH 09/10] GFS2: Get a block reservation before resizing a file

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Message-Id: <1361268460-3092-10-git-send-email-swhiteho@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:07:39 +0000
From:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com
Cc:	Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 09/10] GFS2: Get a block reservation before resizing a file

From: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>

This patch allocates a block reservation structure before growing
or shrinking a file. Without this structure, the grow or shink code
can reference the bad pointer.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/bmap.c b/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
index d29d779..df686d1 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
@@ -1288,6 +1288,10 @@ int gfs2_setattr_size(struct inode *inode, u64 newsize)
 
 	inode_dio_wait(inode);
 
+	ret = gfs2_rs_alloc(GFS2_I(inode));
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	oldsize = inode->i_size;
 	if (newsize >= oldsize)
 		return do_grow(inode, newsize);
-- 
1.7.4

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