Re: [PATCH] ext4: Do not zeroout extents beyond i_disksize

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On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:50:16PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> We do not want to create initialized extents beyond end of file because
> for e2fsck it is impossible to distinguish them from a case of corrupted
> file size / extent tree and so it complains like:
> 
> Inode 12, i_size is 147456, should be 163840.  Fix? no
> 
> Code in ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized() and
> ext4_split_convert_extents() try to make sure it does not create
> initialized extents beyond inode size however they check against
> inode->i_size which is wrong. They should instead check against
> EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize which is the current inode size on disk.
> That's what e2fsck is going to see in case of crash before all dirty
> data is written. This bug manifests as generic/456 test failure (with
> recent enough fstests where fsx got fixed to properly pass
> FALLOC_KEEP_SIZE_FL flags to the kernel) when run with dioread_lock
> mount option.
> 
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 21ca087a3891 ("ext4: Do not zero out uninitialized extents beyond i_size")
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted



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