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    ext4: use truncate_setsize() unconditionally · 072bd7ea
    Theodore Ts'o authored
    In commit c8d46e41 (ext4: Add flag to files with blocks intentionally
    past EOF), if the EOFBLOCKS_FL flag is set, we call ext4_truncate()
    before calling vmtruncate().  This caused any allocated but unwritten
    blocks created by calling fallocate() with the FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE
    flag to be dropped.  This was done to make to make sure that
    EOFBLOCKS_FL would not be cleared while still leaving blocks past
    i_size allocated.  This was not necessary, since ext4_truncate()
    guarantees that blocks past i_size will be dropped, even in the case
    where truncate() has increased i_size before calling ext4_truncate().
    
    So fix this by removing the EOFBLOCKS_FL special case treatment in
    ext4_setattr().  In addition, use truncate_setsize() followed by a
    call to ext4_truncate() instead of using vmtruncate().  This is more
    efficient since it skips the call to inode_newsize_ok(), which has
    been checked already by inode_change_ok().  This is also in a win in
    the case where EOFBLOCKS_FL is set since it avoids calling
    ext4_truncate() twice.
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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