ext4: fix zeroing of page during writeback
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 27 May 2014 16:48:55 +0000 (12:48 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 1 Jul 2014 03:11:55 +0000 (20:11 -0700)
commit28f26f6de7c4a171ff82166a09c0dafb2f936b15
tree34b7eb8713a40a10c58bd05edb1915fc0b0eadfa
parentdc2acd78c1488bc228ee335dee311ec6caab26e8
ext4: fix zeroing of page during writeback

commit eeece469dedadf3918bad50ad80f4616a0064e90 upstream.

Tail of a page straddling inode size must be zeroed when being written
out due to POSIX requirement that modifications of mmaped page beyond
inode size must not be written to the file. ext4_bio_write_page() did
this only for blocks fully beyond inode size but didn't properly zero
blocks partially beyond inode size. Fix this.

The problem has been uncovered by mmap_11-4 test in openposix test suite
(part of LTP).

Reported-by: Xiaoguang Wang <wangxg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Fixes: 5a0dc7365c240
Fixes: bd2d0210cf22f
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/page-io.c