ext3: truncate block allocated on a failed ext3_write_begin
authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:28:00 +0000 (20:28 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:52:38 +0000 (08:52 -0700)
For blocksize < pagesize we need to remove blocks that got allocated in
block_write_begin() if we fail with ENOSPC for later blocks.
block_write_begin() internally does this if it allocated page locally.
This makes sure we don't have blocks outside inode.i_size during ENOSPC.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ext3/inode.c

index ebfec4d..f8424ad 100644 (file)
@@ -1186,6 +1186,13 @@ write_begin_failed:
                ext3_journal_stop(handle);
                unlock_page(page);
                page_cache_release(page);
+               /*
+                * block_write_begin may have instantiated a few blocks
+                * outside i_size.  Trim these off again. Don't need
+                * i_size_read because we hold i_mutex.
+                */
+               if (pos + len > inode->i_size)
+                       vmtruncate(inode, inode->i_size);
        }
        if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext3_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
                goto retry;