tmpfs: fix regression hang in fallocate undo
commit 7f556567 upstream. The well-spotted fallocate undo fix is good in most cases, but not when fallocate failed on the very first page. index 0 then passes lend -1 to shmem_undo_range(), and that has two bad effects: (a) that it will undo every fallocation throughout the file, unrestricted by the current range; but more importantly (b) it can cause the undo to hang, because lend -1 is treated as truncation, which makes it keep on retrying until every page has gone, but those already fully instantiated will never go away. Big thank you to xfstests generic/269 which demonstrates this. Fixes: b9b4bb26 ("tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: use PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT instead of PAGE_SHIFT] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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