If we write to the maximum file offset (2^63-2), XFS fails to log the inode size update when the page is flushed. For example: $ xfs_io -fc "pwrite `echo "2^63-1-1" | bc` 1" /mnt/file wrote 1/1 bytes at offset 9223372036854775806 1.000000 bytes, 1 ops; 0.0000 sec (22.711 KiB/sec and 23255.8140 ops/sec) $ stat -c %s /mnt/file 9223372036854775807 $ umount /mnt ; mount <dev> /mnt/ $ stat -c %s /mnt/file 0 This occurs because XFS calculates the new file size as io_offset + io_size, I/O occurs in block sized requests, and the maximum supported file size is not block aligned. Therefore, a write to the max allowable offset on a 4k blocksize fs results in a write of size 4k to offset 2^63-4096 (e.g., equivalent to round_down(2^63-1, 4096), or IOW the offset of the block that contains the max file size). The offset plus size calculation (2^63 - 4096 + 4096 == 2^63) overflows the signed 64-bit variable which goes negative and causes the > comparison to the on-disk inode size to fail. This returns 0 from xfs_new_eof() and results in no change to the inode on-disk. Update xfs_new_eof() to explicitly detect overflow of the local calculation and use the VFS inode size in this scenario. The VFS inode size is capped to the maximum and thus XFS writes the correct inode size to disk. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Hi all, This was also discovered while playing around with xfs/071, though it doesn't cause a failure. FWIW, I started off fixing this by converting xfs_new_eof() to use xfs_ufsize_t. That worked, but this seemed more explicit. Brian fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h index c10e3fa..9af2882 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ xfs_new_eof(struct xfs_inode *ip, xfs_fsize_t new_size) { xfs_fsize_t i_size = i_size_read(VFS_I(ip)); - if (new_size > i_size) + if (new_size > i_size || new_size < 0) new_size = i_size; return new_size > ip->i_d.di_size ? new_size : 0; } -- 1.8.3.1 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs