The patch titled reiserfs: truncate blocks not used by a write has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is reiserfs-truncate-blocks-not-used-by-a-write-v2.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: reiserfs: truncate blocks not used by a write From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> It can happen that write does not use all the blocks allocated in write_begin either because of some filesystem error (like ENOSPC) or because page with data to write has been removed from memory. We truncate these blocks so that we don't have dangling blocks beyond i_size. Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/reiserfs/inode.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/reiserfs/inode.c~reiserfs-truncate-blocks-not-used-by-a-write-v2 fs/reiserfs/inode.c --- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c~reiserfs-truncate-blocks-not-used-by-a-write-v2 +++ a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c @@ -2611,6 +2611,8 @@ static int reiserfs_write_begin(struct f if (ret) { unlock_page(page); page_cache_release(page); + /* Truncate allocated blocks */ + reiserfs_truncate_file(inode, 0); } return ret; } @@ -2708,9 +2710,7 @@ static int reiserfs_write_end(struct fil ** transaction tracking stuff when the size changes. So, we have ** to do the i_size updates here. */ - pos += copied; - - if (pos > inode->i_size) { + if (pos + copied > inode->i_size) { struct reiserfs_transaction_handle myth; lock_depth = reiserfs_write_lock_once(inode->i_sb); locked = true; @@ -2728,7 +2728,7 @@ static int reiserfs_write_end(struct fil goto journal_error; reiserfs_update_inode_transaction(inode); - inode->i_size = pos; + inode->i_size = pos + copied; /* * this will just nest into our transaction. It's important * to use mark_inode_dirty so the inode gets pushed around on the @@ -2758,6 +2758,10 @@ static int reiserfs_write_end(struct fil reiserfs_write_unlock_once(inode->i_sb, lock_depth); unlock_page(page); page_cache_release(page); + + if (pos + len > inode->i_size) + reiserfs_truncate_file(inode, 0); + return ret == 0 ? copied : ret; journal_error: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are origin.patch fs-make-sure-data-stored-into-inode-is-properly-seen-before-unlocking-new-inode.patch fs-make-sure-data-stored-into-inode-is-properly-seen-before-unlocking-new-inode-fix.patch linux-next.patch vfs-split-generic_forget_inode-so-that-hugetlbfs-does-not-have-to-copy-it.patch fs-new-truncate-helpers.patch fs-use-new-truncate-helpers.patch fs-introduce-new-truncate-sequence.patch fs-convert-simple-fs-to-new-truncate.patch tmpfs-convert-to-use-the-new-truncate-convention.patch ext2-convert-to-use-the-new-truncate-convention.patch ext2-convert-to-use-the-new-truncate-convention-fix.patch fat-convert-to-use-the-new-truncate-convention.patch btrfs-convert-to-use-the-new-truncate-convention.patch jfs-convert-to-use-the-new-truncate-convention.patch udf-convert-to-use-the-new-truncate-convention.patch minix-convert-to-use-the-new-truncate-convention.patch vm-document-that-setting-vfs_cache_pressure-to-0-isnt-a-good-idea.patch reiserfs-truncate-blocks-not-used-by-a-write-v2.patch reiser4-update-names-of-quota-methods.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html