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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2009-12-01 16:53:06 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-12-18 14:05:39 -0800
commit62965d8347a071c72f4dae96e65be5fb68dd052f (patch)
tree8692745fa597bed740e9d824eaec46f815a9d271 /Documentation
parentad496b34c6835a89dd3a8f6c07dfcf8a0dd7c277 (diff)
ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
commit 68eb3db08344286733adac48304d9fb7a0e53b27 upstream. When ext3_write_begin fails after allocating some blocks or generic_perform_write fails to copy data to write, we truncate blocks already instantiated beyond i_size. Although these blocks were never inside i_size, we have to truncate pagecache of these blocks so that corresponding buffers get unmapped. Otherwise subsequent __block_prepare_write (called because we are retrying the write) will find the buffers mapped, not call ->get_block, and thus the page will be backed by already freed blocks leading to filesystem and data corruption. Reported-by: James Y Knight <foom@fuhm.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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