Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | swhiteho@redhat ... | Subject | [PATCH] [GFS2] inode size inconsistency | Date | Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:02:55 +0100 |
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From: Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
This should have been part of the NFS patch #1 but somehow I missed it when packaging the patches. It is not a critical issue as the others (I hope). RHEL 5.1 31.el5 kernel runs fine without this change.
Our truncate code is chopped into two parts, one for vfs inode changes (in vmtruncate()) and one of gfs inode (in gfs2_truncatei()). These two operatons are, unfortunately, not atomic. So it could happens that vmtruncate() succeeds (inode->i_size is changed) but gfs2_truncatei fails (say kernel temporarily out of memory). This would leave gfs inode i_di.di_size out of sync with vfs inode i_size. It will later confuse gfs2_commit_write() if a write is issued. Last time I checked, it will cause file corruption.
Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c index 84051b9..911c115 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c @@ -903,8 +903,8 @@ static int setattr_size(struct inode *inode, struct iattr *attr) } error = gfs2_truncatei(ip, attr->ia_size); - if (error) - return error; + if (error && (inode->i_size != ip->i_di.di_size)) + i_size_write(inode, ip->i_di.di_size); return error; } -- 1.5.1.2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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