On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 05:31:16PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If we are soing sub-block dio that extends EOF, we need to zero
> the unused tail of the block to initialise the data in it it. If we
> do not zero the tail of the block, then an immediate mmap read of
> the EOF block will expose stale data beyond EOF to userspace. Found
> with fsx running sub-block DIO sizes vs MAPREAD/MAPWRITE operations.
>
> Fix this by detecting if the end of the DIO write is beyond EOF
> and zeroing the tail if necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/iomap.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/iomap.c b/fs/iomap.c
> index 64ce240217a1..16d16596b00f 100644
> --- a/fs/iomap.c
> +++ b/fs/iomap.c
> @@ -1676,7 +1676,14 @@ iomap_dio_bio_actor(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t length,
> dio->submit.cookie = submit_bio(bio);
> } while (nr_pages);
>
> - if (need_zeroout) {
> + /*
> + * We need to zeroout the tail of a sub-block write if th extent type
s/th/the/
Otherwise this looks fine to me:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
