[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "ext4: allocate entire range in zero range" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ext4: allocate entire range in zero range

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt11.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 6adfaea00a0255b34fc91b3469d630e3693240e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Czerner <lczerner at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 00:09:13 -0400
Subject: ext4: allocate entire range in zero range

commit 0f2af21aae11972fa924374ddcf52e88347cf5a8 upstream.

Currently there is a bug in zero range code which causes zero range
calls to only allocate block aligned portion of the range, while
ignoring the rest in some cases.

In some cases, namely if the end of the range is past i_size, we do
attempt to preallocate the last nonaligned block. However this might
cause kernel to BUG() in some carefully designed zero range requests
on setups where page size > block size.

Fix this problem by first preallocating the entire range, including
the nonaligned edges and converting the written extents to unwritten
in the next step. This approach will also give us the advantage of
having the range to be as linearly contiguous as possible.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/extents.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 2a4b4f3b1ae2..cdfe574ba3d9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -4795,12 +4795,6 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
 	else
 		max_blocks -= lblk;

-	flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNWRIT_EXT |
-		EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT_UNWRITTEN |
-		EXT4_EX_NOCACHE;
-	if (mode & FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE)
-		flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_KEEP_SIZE;
-
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);

 	/*
@@ -4817,15 +4811,28 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
 		ret = inode_newsize_ok(inode, new_size);
 		if (ret)
 			goto out_mutex;
-		/*
-		 * If we have a partial block after EOF we have to allocate
-		 * the entire block.
-		 */
-		if (partial_end)
-			max_blocks += 1;
 	}

+	flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNWRIT_EXT;
+	if (mode & FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE)
+		flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_KEEP_SIZE;
+
+	/* Preallocate the range including the unaligned edges */
+	if (partial_begin || partial_end) {
+		ret = ext4_alloc_file_blocks(file,
+				round_down(offset, 1 << blkbits) >> blkbits,
+				(round_up((offset + len), 1 << blkbits) -
+				 round_down(offset, 1 << blkbits)) >> blkbits,
+				new_size, flags, mode);
+		if (ret)
+			goto out_mutex;
+
+	}
+
+	/* Zero range excluding the unaligned edges */
 	if (max_blocks > 0) {
+		flags |= (EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT_UNWRITTEN |
+			  EXT4_EX_NOCACHE);

 		/* Now release the pages and zero block aligned part of pages*/
 		truncate_pagecache_range(inode, start, end - 1);