ext4: fix data corruption in data=journal mode
commit 3b136499 upstream. ext4_journalled_write_end() did not propely handle all the cases when generic_perform_write() did not copy all the data into the target page and could mark buffers with uninitialized contents as uptodate and dirty leading to possible data corruption (which would be quickly fixed by generic_perform_write() retrying the write but still). Fix the problem by carefully handling the case when the page that is written to is not uptodate. Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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