The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From babef37dccbaa49249a22bae9150686815d7be71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 16:20:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] excessive checks in ufs_write_failed() and ufs_evict_inode() As it is, short copy in write() to append-only file will fail to truncate the excessive allocated blocks. As the matter of fact, all checks in ufs_truncate_blocks() are either redundant or wrong for that caller. As for the only other caller (ufs_evict_inode()), we only need the file type checks there. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ufs/inode.c b/fs/ufs/inode.c index 9bf10285c628..34f11cf0900a 100644 --- a/fs/ufs/inode.c +++ b/fs/ufs/inode.c @@ -844,7 +844,9 @@ void ufs_evict_inode(struct inode * inode) truncate_inode_pages_final(&inode->i_data); if (want_delete) { inode->i_size = 0; - if (inode->i_blocks) + if (inode->i_blocks && + (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || + S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))) ufs_truncate_blocks(inode); } @@ -1103,7 +1105,7 @@ static int ufs_alloc_lastblock(struct inode *inode, loff_t size) return err; } -static void __ufs_truncate_blocks(struct inode *inode) +static void ufs_truncate_blocks(struct inode *inode) { struct ufs_inode_info *ufsi = UFS_I(inode); struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; @@ -1186,7 +1188,7 @@ static int ufs_truncate(struct inode *inode, loff_t size) truncate_setsize(inode, size); - __ufs_truncate_blocks(inode); + ufs_truncate_blocks(inode); inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode); mark_inode_dirty(inode); out: @@ -1194,16 +1196,6 @@ static int ufs_truncate(struct inode *inode, loff_t size) return err; } -static void ufs_truncate_blocks(struct inode *inode) -{ - if (!(S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || - S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))) - return; - if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) - return; - __ufs_truncate_blocks(inode); -} - int ufs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr) { struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);