This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled f2fs: compress: disallow disabling compress on non-empty compressed file to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: f2fs-compress-disallow-disabling-compress-on-non-emp.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit fa82ca01595551d6464b805bd075f6aadf489e1c Author: Hyeong-Jun Kim <hj514.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 27 13:16:00 2021 +0900 f2fs: compress: disallow disabling compress on non-empty compressed file [ Upstream commit 02d58cd253d7536c412993573fc6b3b4454960eb ] Compresse file and normal file has differ in i_addr addressing, specifically addrs per inode/block. So, we will face data loss, if we disable the compression flag on non-empty files. Therefore we should disallow not only enabling but disabling the compression flag on non-empty files. Fixes: 4c8ff7095bef ("f2fs: support data compression") Signed-off-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hyeong-Jun Kim <hj514.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h index 2d7799bd30b10..bc488a7d01903 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h @@ -3908,8 +3908,7 @@ static inline bool f2fs_disable_compressed_file(struct inode *inode) if (!f2fs_compressed_file(inode)) return true; - if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && - (get_dirty_pages(inode) || atomic_read(&fi->i_compr_blocks))) + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && F2FS_HAS_BLOCKS(inode)) return false; fi->i_flags &= ~F2FS_COMPR_FL;