I've got a report of a file corruption from fsxlinux on ext3. The important
operations to the page were:
mapwrite to a hole
partial write to the page
read - found the page zeroed from the end of the normal write
The culprit seems to be that if get_block() fails in __block_write_begin()
(e.g. transient ENOSPC in ext3), the function does ClearPageUptodate(page).
Thus when we retry the write, the logic in __block_write_begin() thinks zeroing
of the page is needed and overwrites old data. In fact, I don't see why we
should ever need to zero the uptodate bit here - either the page was uptodate
when we entered __block_write_begin() and it should stay so when we leave it,
or it was not uptodate and noone had right to set it uptodate during
__block_write_begin() so it remains !uptodate when we leave as well. So just
remove clearing of the bit.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/buffer.c | 4 +---
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
I'm definitely looking for a review of this. I wouldn't like to introduce
a new data-corruption-on-error-recovery while fixing one ;)
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 49c9aad..1a80b04 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1902,10 +1902,8 @@ int __block_write_begin(struct page *page, loff_t pos, unsigned len,
if (!buffer_uptodate(*wait_bh))
err = -EIO;
}
- if (unlikely(err)) {
+ if (unlikely(err))
page_zero_new_buffers(page, from, to);
- ClearPageUptodate(page);
- }
return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__block_write_begin);
--
1.7.1
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