ext4: Avoid data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Wed, 9 Dec 2009 02:24:33 +0000 (21:24 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:07:51 +0000 (08:07 -0800)
commit1065591da0c1726f0aff654a7e23062e8898d923
treecd9051fb130c6f993ea223e6bf2a4199345fdc30
parent5e5c63120a3f3be8b89d09198bb0bc76e8d4f926
ext4: Avoid data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data

(cherry picked from commit b9a4207d5e911b938f73079a83cc2ae10524ec7f)

When ext4_write_begin fails after allocating some blocks or
generic_perform_write fails to copy data to write, we truncate blocks
already instantiated beyond i_size.  Although these blocks were never
inside i_size, we have to truncate the pagecache of these blocks so
that corresponding buffers get unmapped.  Otherwise subsequent
__block_prepare_write (called because we are retrying the write) will
find the buffers mapped, not call ->get_block, and thus the page will
be backed by already freed blocks leading to filesystem and data
corruption.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/ext4/inode.c