Invalidate the page cache (as a regular O_DIRECT write would do) to avoid returning stale cache contents at a later time. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/ioctl.c | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c index ed2397f..755119c 100644 --- a/block/ioctl.c +++ b/block/ioctl.c @@ -225,7 +225,8 @@ static int blk_ioctl_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, unsigned long arg) { uint64_t range[2]; - uint64_t start, len; + struct address_space *mapping; + uint64_t start, end, len; if (!(mode & FMODE_WRITE)) return -EBADF; @@ -235,18 +236,23 @@ static int blk_ioctl_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, start = range[0]; len = range[1]; + end = start + len - 1; if (start & 511) return -EINVAL; if (len & 511) return -EINVAL; - start >>= 9; - len >>= 9; - - if (start + len > (i_size_read(bdev->bd_inode) >> 9)) + if (end >= (uint64_t)i_size_read(bdev->bd_inode)) + return -EINVAL; + if (end < start) return -EINVAL; - return blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start, len, GFP_KERNEL, false); + /* Invalidate the page cache, including dirty pages */ + mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping; + truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, start, end); + + return blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, start >> 9, len >> 9, GFP_KERNEL, + false); } static int put_ushort(unsigned long arg, unsigned short val) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs