fallocate blocks are considered as sparse area and read from them should return zero. ext4_ext_get_blocks should return zero for read request. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index 3efbfd1..5b22f71 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -2379,8 +2379,14 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, } if (create == EXT4_CREATE_UNINITIALIZED_EXT) goto out; - if (!create) + if (!create) { + /* + * read request should return zero blocks + * allocated + */ + allocated = 0; goto out2; + } ret = ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle, inode, path, iblock, -- 1.5.4.1.97.g40aab-dirty - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html