The patch titled
fs: fix data-loss on error
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fs-fix-data-loss-on-error.patch
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Subject: fs: fix data-loss on error
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
New buffers against uptodate pages are simply be marked uptodate, while the
buffer_new bit remains set. This causes error-case code to zero out parts of
those buffers because it thinks they contain stale data: wrong, they are
actually uptodate so this is a data loss situation.
Fix this by actually clearning buffer_new and marking the buffer dirty. It
makes sense to always clear buffer_new before setting a buffer uptodate.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/buffer.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN fs/buffer.c~fs-fix-data-loss-on-error fs/buffer.c
--- a/fs/buffer.c~fs-fix-data-loss-on-error
+++ a/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1785,7 +1785,9 @@ static int __block_prepare_write(struct
unmap_underlying_metadata(bh->b_bdev,
bh->b_blocknr);
if (PageUptodate(page)) {
+ clear_buffer_new(bh);
set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
+ mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
continue;
}
if (block_end > to || block_start < from) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxx are
mm-fix-fault-vs-invalidate-race-for-linear-mappings.patch
mm-fix-fault-vs-invalidate-race-for-linear-mappings-fix.patch
mm-merge-populate-and-nopage-into-fault-fixes-nonlinear.patch
mm-merge-nopfn-into-fault.patch
mm-remove-legacy-cruft.patch
mm-debug-check-for-the-fault-vs-invalidate-race.patch
mm-fix-clear_page_dirty_for_io-vs-fault-race.patch
git-arm-master.patch
slob-rework-freelist-handling.patch
slob-remove-bigblock-tracking.patch
slob-improved-alignment-handling.patch
mm-revert-kernel_ds-buffered-write-optimisation.patch
revert-81b0c8713385ce1b1b9058e916edcf9561ad76d6.patch
revert-6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83.patch
mm-clean-up-buffered-write-code.patch
mm-debug-write-deadlocks.patch
mm-trim-more-holes.patch
mm-buffered-write-cleanup.patch
mm-write-iovec-cleanup.patch
mm-fix-pagecache-write-deadlocks.patch
mm-buffered-write-iterator.patch
fs-fix-data-loss-on-error.patch
fs-introduce-write_begin-write_end-and-perform_write-aops.patch
mm-restore-kernel_ds-optimisations.patch
implement-simple-fs-aops.patch
block_dev-convert-to-new-aops.patch
ext2-convert-to-new-aops.patch
ext3-convert-to-new-aops.patch
ext4-convert-to-new-aops.patch
xfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
fs-new-cont-helpers.patch
fat-convert-to-new-aops.patch
hfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
hfsplus-convert-to-new-aops.patch
hpfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
bfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
qnx4-convert-to-new-aops.patch
reiserfs-use-generic-write.patch
reiserfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
reiserfs-use-generic_cont_expand_simple.patch
with-reiserfs-no-longer-using-the-weird-generic_cont_expand-remove-it-completely.patch
nfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
smb-convert-to-new-aops.patch
fuse-convert-to-new-aops.patch
hostfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
jffs2-convert-to-new-aops.patch
ufs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
udf-convert-to-new-aops.patch
sysv-convert-to-new-aops.patch
minix-convert-to-new-aops.patch
jfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
mm-document-fault_data-and-flags.patch
fs-introduce-some-page-buffer-invariants.patch
fs-introduce-write_begin-write_end-and-perform_write-aops-revoke.patch
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