ext4: fix nomblk_io_submit option so it correctly converts uninit blocks
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:58:21 +0000 (12:58 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:58:21 +0000 (12:58 -0400)
Bug discovered by Jan Kara:

Finally, commit 1449032be17abb69116dbc393f67ceb8bd034f92 returned back
the old IO submission code but apparently it forgot to return the old
handling of uninitialized buffers so we unconditionnaly call
block_write_full_page() without specifying end_io function. So AFAICS
we never convert unwritten extents to written in some cases. For
example when I mount the fs as: mount -t ext4 -o
nomblk_io_submit,dioread_nolock /dev/ubdb /mnt and do
        int fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0600);
        char buf[1024];
        memset(buf, 'a', sizeof(buf));
        fallocate(fd, 0, 0, 16384);
        write(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));

I get a file full of zeros (after remounting the filesystem so that
pagecache is dropped) instead of seeing the first KB contain 'a's.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
fs/ext4/inode.c

index 762e803..c4da98a 100644 (file)
@@ -1291,7 +1291,12 @@ static int mpage_da_submit_io(struct mpage_da_data *mpd,
                        else if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, MBLK_IO_SUBMIT))
                                err = ext4_bio_write_page(&io_submit, page,
                                                          len, mpd->wbc);
-                       else
+                       else if (buffer_uninit(page_bufs)) {
+                               ext4_set_bh_endio(page_bufs, inode);
+                               err = block_write_full_page_endio(page,
+                                       noalloc_get_block_write,
+                                       mpd->wbc, ext4_end_io_buffer_write);
+                       } else
                                err = block_write_full_page(page,
                                        noalloc_get_block_write, mpd->wbc);