At LSF we decided that if we truncate up from isize we shouldn't trim fallocated blocks that were fallocated with KEEP_SIZE and are past the new i_size. This patch fixes ext4 to do this. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 0554b0b..92174dd 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4640,6 +4640,7 @@ static void ext4_wait_for_tail_page_commit(struct inode *inode) int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr) { struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry); + loff_t oldsize = inode->i_size; int error, rc = 0; int orphan = 0; const unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid; @@ -4727,8 +4728,6 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr) goto err_out; } } else { - loff_t oldsize = inode->i_size; - i_size_write(inode, attr->ia_size); pagecache_isize_extended(inode, oldsize, inode->i_size); } @@ -4756,7 +4755,7 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr) * We want to call ext4_truncate() even if attr->ia_size == * inode->i_size for cases like truncation of fallocated space */ - if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) + if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE && attr->ia_size <= oldsize) ext4_truncate(inode); if (!rc) { -- 1.8.3.1 -- 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