This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xfs: don't unconditionally clear the reflink flag on zero-block files to the 4.9-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: xfs-don-t-unconditionally-clear-the-reflink-flag-on-zero-block-files.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cc6f77710a6de6210f9feda7cd53e2f5ee7a7e69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:41:16 -0700 Subject: xfs: don't unconditionally clear the reflink flag on zero-block files From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> commit cc6f77710a6de6210f9feda7cd53e2f5ee7a7e69 upstream. If we have speculative cow preallocations hanging around in the cow fork, don't let a truncate operation clear the reflink flag because if we do then there's a chance we'll forget to free those extents when we destroy the incore inode. Reported-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c @@ -1632,10 +1632,12 @@ xfs_itruncate_extents( goto out; /* - * Clear the reflink flag if we truncated everything. + * Clear the reflink flag if there are no data fork blocks and + * there are no extents staged in the cow fork. */ - if (ip->i_d.di_nblocks == 0 && xfs_is_reflink_inode(ip)) { - ip->i_d.di_flags2 &= ~XFS_DIFLAG2_REFLINK; + if (xfs_is_reflink_inode(ip) && ip->i_cnextents == 0) { + if (ip->i_d.di_nblocks == 0) + ip->i_d.di_flags2 &= ~XFS_DIFLAG2_REFLINK; xfs_inode_clear_cowblocks_tag(ip); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/xfs-don-t-unconditionally-clear-the-reflink-flag-on-zero-block-files.patch queue-4.9/xfs-cancel-dirty-pages-on-invalidation.patch queue-4.9/xfs-reinit-btree-pointer-on-attr-tree-inactivation-walk.patch queue-4.9/xfs-report-zeroed-or-not-correctly-in-xfs_zero_range.patch queue-4.9/xfs-move-more-rt-specific-code-under-config_xfs_rt.patch queue-4.9/xfs-don-t-change-inode-mode-if-acl-update-fails.patch queue-4.9/xfs-handle-error-if-xfs_btree_get_bufs-fails.patch queue-4.9/xfs-update-i_size-after-unwritten-conversion-in-dio-completion.patch queue-4.9/xfs-trim-writepage-mapping-to-within-eof.patch queue-4.9/xfs-handle-racy-aio-in-xfs_reflink_end_cow.patch queue-4.9/xfs-evict-cow-fork-extents-when-performing-finsert-fcollapse.patch queue-4.9/xfs-capture-state-of-the-right-inode-in-xfs_iflush_done.patch queue-4.9/fs-xfs-use-ps-printk-format-for-direct-addresses.patch queue-4.9/xfs-perag-initialization-should-only-touch-m_ag_max_usable-for-ag-0.patch queue-4.9/xfs-always-swap-the-cow-forks-when-swapping-extents.patch queue-4.9/xfs-don-t-log-uninitialised-fields-in-inode-structures.patch