Commit 5ec8b75e authored by Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar Aneesh Kumar K.V Committed by Linus Torvalds

ext3: truncate block allocated on a failed ext3_write_begin

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: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6a897cf4
......@@ -1186,6 +1186,13 @@ static int ext3_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
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;
......
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