linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: Honor FALLOC_FL_KEEP

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Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 07:39:32 -0400
From:   Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>
To:     Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>
Cc:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, kernel-team@...com,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: Honor FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE when punching ends of
 files

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 09:54:51PM -0700, Calvin Owens wrote:
> When punching past EOF on XFS, fallocate(mode=PUNCH_HOLE|KEEP_SIZE) will
> round the file size up to the nearest multiple of PAGE_SIZE:
> 
>   calvinow@...disks/generic-xfs-1 ~$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test bs=2048 count=1
>   calvinow@...disks/generic-xfs-1 ~$ stat test
>     Size: 2048            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
>   calvinow@...disks/generic-xfs-1 ~$ fallocate -n -l 2048 -o 2048 -p test
>   calvinow@...disks/generic-xfs-1 ~$ stat test
>     Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
> 
> Commit 3c2bdc912a1cc050 ("xfs: kill xfs_zero_remaining_bytes") replaced
> xfs_zero_remaining_bytes() with calls to iomap helpers. The new helpers
> don't enforce that [pos,offset) lies strictly on [0,i_size) when being
> called from xfs_free_file_space(), so by "leaking" these ranges into
> xfs_zero_range() we get this buggy behavior.
> 
> Fix this by reintroducing the checks xfs_zero_remaining_bytes() did
> against i_size at the bottom of xfs_free_file_space().
> 
> Reported-by: Aaron Gao <gzh@...com>
> Fixes: 3c2bdc912a1cc050 ("xfs: kill xfs_zero_remaining_bytes")
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.8+
> Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> index 8b75dce..0796ebc 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> @@ -1309,6 +1309,17 @@ xfs_free_file_space(
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> +	 * Avoid doing I/O beyond eof - it's not necessary
> +	 * since nothing can read beyond eof.  The space will
> +	 * be zeroed when the file is extended anyway.
> +	 */

I'd suggest to update the comment below with this information and move
the following bits down below it as well.

> +	if (offset >= XFS_ISIZE(ip))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	if ((offset + len) >= XFS_ISIZE(ip))
> +		len = XFS_ISIZE(ip) - offset - 1;
> +

This looks like an off-by-one. Do you mean the following?

	if (offset + len > XFS_ISIZE(ip))
		len = XFS_ISIZE(ip) - offset;

Brian

> +	/*
>  	 * Now that we've unmap all full blocks we'll have to zero out any
>  	 * partial block at the beginning and/or end.  xfs_zero_range is
>  	 * smart enough to skip any holes, including those we just created.
> -- 
> 2.9.3
> 
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