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2011-01-12switch ocfs2, close racesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12switch gfs2, close racesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12switch cifsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12switch nfs to ->s_d_opAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12switch adfsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12switch hfsplusAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12switch hfsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12minixfs: kill dead codeAl Viro
->d_op of root stays NULL these days on minixfs Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12switch sysvAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12switch fuseAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12switch jfs to ->s_d_op, close exportfs racesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12switch fat to ->s_d_op, close exportfs races thereAl Viro
don't bother with lock_super() in fat_fill_super() callers, while we are at it - there won't be any concurrency anyway. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12fix isofs d_op handlingAl Viro
switch to ->s_d_op; d_obtain_alias() will DTRT now Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12per-superblock default ->d_opAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-11Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.38' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6 * 'nfs-for-2.6.38' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (89 commits) NFS fix the setting of exchange id flag NFS: Don't use vm_map_ram() in readdir NFSv4: Ensure continued open and lockowner name uniqueness NFS: Move cl_delegations to the nfs_server struct NFS: Introduce nfs_detach_delegations() NFS: Move cl_state_owners and related fields to the nfs_server struct NFS: Allow walking nfs_client.cl_superblocks list outside client.c pnfs: layout roc code pnfs: update nfs4_callback_recallany to handle layouts pnfs: add CB_LAYOUTRECALL handling pnfs: CB_LAYOUTRECALL xdr code pnfs: change lo refcounting to atomic_t pnfs: check that partial LAYOUTGET return is ignored pnfs: add layout to client list before sending rpc pnfs: serialize LAYOUTGET(openstateid) pnfs: layoutget rpc code cleanup pnfs: change how lsegs are removed from layout list pnfs: change layout state seqlock to a spinlock pnfs: add prefix to struct pnfs_layout_hdr fields pnfs: add prefix to struct pnfs_layout_segment fields ...
2011-01-11Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6: UDF: Close small mem leak in udf_find_entry() udf: Fix directory corruption after extent merging udf: Protect udf_file_aio_write from possible races udf: Remove unnecessary bkl usages udf: Use of s_alloc_mutex to serialize udf_relocate_blocks() execution udf: Replace bkl with the UDF_I(inode)->i_data_sem for protect udf_inode_info struct udf: Remove BKL from free space counting functions udf: Call udf_add_free_space() for more blocks at once in udf_free_blocks() udf: Remove BKL from udf_put_super() and udf_remount_fs() udf: Protect default inode credentials by rwlock udf: Protect all modifications of LVID with s_alloc_mutex udf: Move handling of uniqueID into a helper function and protect it by a s_alloc_mutex udf: Remove BKL from udf_update_inode udf: Convert UDF_SB(sb)->s_flags to use bitops fs/udf: Add printf format/argument verification fs/udf: Use vzalloc (Evil merge: this also removes the BKL dependency from the Kconfig file)
2011-01-11Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (44 commits) ext4: fix trimming starting with block 0 with small blocksize ext4: revert buggy trim overflow patch ext4: don't pass entire map to check_eofblocks_fl ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_free_branches ext4: remove ext4_mb_return_to_preallocation() ext4: flush the i_completed_io_list during ext4_truncate ext4: add error checking to calls to ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() ext4: fix trimming of a single group ext4: fix uninitialized variable in ext4_register_li_request ext4: dynamically allocate the jbd2_inode in ext4_inode_info as necessary ext4: drop i_state_flags on architectures with 64-bit longs ext4: reorder ext4_inode_info structure elements to remove unneeded padding ext4: drop ec_type from the ext4_ext_cache structure ext4: use ext4_lblk_t instead of sector_t for logical blocks ext4: replace i_delalloc_reserved_flag with EXT4_STATE_DELALLOC_RESERVED ext4: fix 32bit overflow in ext4_ext_find_goal() ext4: add more error checks to ext4_mkdir() ext4: ext4_ext_migrate should use NULL not 0 ext4: Use ext4_error_file() to print the pathname to the corrupted inode ext4: use IS_ERR() to check for errors in ext4_error_file ...
2011-01-11Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: ext2: Resolve 'dereferencing pointer to incomplete type' when enabling EXT2_XATTR_DEBUG ext3: Remove redundant unlikely() ext2: Remove redundant unlikely() ext3: speed up file creates by optimizing rec_len functions ext2: speed up file creates by optimizing rec_len functions ext3: Add more journal error check ext3: Add journal error check in resize.c quota: Use %pV and __attribute__((format (printf in __quota_error and fix fallout ext3: Add FITRIM handling ext3: Add batched discard support for ext3 ext3: Add journal error check into ext3_rename() ext3: Use search_dirblock() in ext3_dx_find_entry() ext3: Avoid uninitialized memory references with a corrupted htree directory ext3: Return error code from generic_check_addressable ext3: Add journal error check into ext3_delete_entry() ext3: Add error check in ext3_mkdir() fs/ext3/super.c: Use printf extension %pV fs/ext2/super.c: Use printf extension %pV ext3: don't update sb journal_devnum when RO dev
2011-01-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: fs/9p: Don't set dentry->d_op in create routines fs/9p: fix spelling typo fs/9p: TREADLINK bugfix net/9p: Use proper data types fs/9p: Simplify the .L create operation fs/9p: Move dotl inode operations into a seperate file fs/9p: fix menu presentation fs/9p: Fix the return error on default acl removal fs/9p: Remove unnecessary semicolons
2011-01-11ext4: fix trimming starting with block 0 with small blocksizeJan Kara
When s_first_data_block is not zero (which happens e.g. when block size is 1KB) and trim ioctl is called to start trimming from block 0, the math in ext4_get_group_no_and_offset() overflows. The overall result is that ioctl returns EINVAL which is kind of unexpected and we probably don't want userspace tools to bother with internal details of filesystem structure. So just silently increase starting offset (and shorten length) when starting block is below s_first_data_block. CC: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-11ext4: revert buggy trim overflow patchTheodore Ts'o
This reverts commit 4f531501e44: ext4: fix possible overflow in ext4_trim_fs() Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-11Merge branch 'for-linus-merged' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus-merged' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (47 commits) xfs: convert grant head manipulations to lockless algorithm xfs: introduce new locks for the log grant ticket wait queues xfs: convert log grant heads to atomic variables xfs: convert l_tail_lsn to an atomic variable. xfs: convert l_last_sync_lsn to an atomic variable xfs: make AIL tail pushing independent of the grant lock xfs: use wait queues directly for the log wait queues xfs: combine grant heads into a single 64 bit integer xfs: rework log grant space calculations xfs: fact out common grant head/log tail verification code xfs: convert log grant ticket queues to list heads xfs: use AIL bulk delete function to implement single delete xfs: use AIL bulk update function to implement single updates xfs: remove all the inodes on a buffer from the AIL in bulk xfs: consume iodone callback items on buffers as they are processed xfs: reduce the number of AIL push wakeups xfs: bulk AIL insertion during transaction commit xfs: clean up xfs_ail_delete() xfs: Pull EFI/EFD handling out from under the AIL lock xfs: fix EFI transaction cancellation. ...
2011-01-11Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2 * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: (22 commits) MAINTAINERS: Update Joel Becker's email address ocfs2: Remove unused truncate function from alloc.c ocfs2/cluster: dereferencing before checking in nst_seq_show() ocfs2: fix build for OCFS2_FS_STATS not enabled ocfs2/cluster: Show o2net timing statistics ocfs2/cluster: Track process message timing stats for each socket ocfs2/cluster: Track send message timing stats for each socket ocfs2/cluster: Use ktime instead of timeval in struct o2net_sock_container ocfs2/cluster: Replace timeval with ktime in struct o2net_send_tracking ocfs2: Add DEBUG_FS dependency ocfs2/dlm: Hard code the values for enums ocfs2/dlm: Minor cleanup ocfs2/dlm: Cleanup dlmdebug.c ocfs2: Release buffer_head in case of error in ocfs2_double_lock. ocfs2/cluster: Pin the local node when o2hb thread starts ocfs2/cluster: Show pin state for each o2hb region ocfs2/cluster: Pin/unpin o2hb regions ocfs2/cluster: Remove dropped region from o2hb quorum region bitmap ocfs2/cluster: Pin the remote node item in configfs ocfs2/dlm: make existing convertion precedent over new lock ...
2011-01-11NFS fix the setting of exchange id flagAndy Adamson
Indicate support for referrals. Do not set any PNFS roles. Check the flags returned by the server for validity. Do not use exchange flags from an old client ID instance when recovering a client ID. Update the EXCHID4_FLAG_XXX set to RFC 5661. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-01-11fs/9p: Don't set dentry->d_op in create routinesAneesh Kumar K.V
We do set dentry->d_op in lookup even in case of EOENT entries. That implies we should have dentry->d_op already set when create/mkdir/mknod/link/symlink routines are called Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-01-11fs/9p: fix spelling typoEric Van Hensbergen
introduced a typo somehow during a hand merge Reported by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-01-11fs/9p: TREADLINK bugfixM. Mohan Kumar
Remove v9fs_vfs_readlink_dotl function and use generic_readlink. Update v9fs_vfs_follow_link_dotl function to accommodate this change Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com> Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org> Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-01-11fs/9p: Simplify the .L create operationAneesh Kumar K.V
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-01-11fs/9p: Move dotl inode operations into a seperate fileAneesh Kumar K.V
Source Code Reorganization Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-01-11fs/9p: fix menu presentationRandy Dunlap
Make the 9P_FS kconfig options subordinate to the 9P_FS kconfig symbol in the menu presentation instead of them all being at the same level. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-01-11fs/9p: Fix the return error on default acl removalAneesh Kumar K.V
If we don't have default ACL, then trying to remove default acl on a file should return 0. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-01-11fs/9p: Remove unnecessary semicolonsJoe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-01-10Merge branch 'master' into for-linus-mergedAlex Elder
This merge pulls the XFS master branch into the latest Linus master. This results in a merge conflict whose best fix is not obvious. I manually fixed the conflict, in "fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c". Dave Chinner had done work that resulted in RCU freeing of inodes separate from what Nick Piggin had done, and their results differed slightly in xfs_inode_free(). The fix updates Nick's call_rcu() with the use of VFS_I(), while incorporating needed updates to some XFS inode fields implemented in Dave's series. Dave's RCU callback function has also been removed. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-01-10Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 * 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: driver core: Document that device_rename() is only for networking sysfs: remove useless test from sysfs_merge_group driver-core: merge private parts of class and bus driver core: fix whitespace in class_attr_string
2011-01-10Merge branch 'bugfixes' into nfs-for-2.6.38Trond Myklebust
Conflicts: fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
2011-01-10NFS: Don't use vm_map_ram() in readdirTrond Myklebust
vm_map_ram() is not available on NOMMU platforms, and causes trouble on incoherrent architectures such as ARM when we access the page data through both the direct and the virtual mapping. The alternative is to use the direct mapping to access page data for the case when we are not crossing a page boundary, but to copy the data into a linear scratch buffer when we are accessing data that spans page boundaries. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Tested-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.37]
2011-01-10ext2: Resolve 'dereferencing pointer to incomplete type' when enabling ↵Josh Hunt
EXT2_XATTR_DEBUG When I enable EXT2_XATTR_DEBUG in fs/ext2/xattr.c I get a build error stating the following: CC fs/ext2/xattr.o fs/ext2/xattr.c: In function 'ext2_xattr_cache_insert': fs/ext2/xattr.c:841: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type fs/ext2/xattr.c:846: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make[2]: *** [fs/ext2/xattr.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [fs/ext2] Error 2 make: *** [fs] Error 2 These lines reference ext2_xattr_cache->c_entry_count which is defined in struct mb_cache. struct mb_cache is currently only defined in fs/mbcache.c. Moving struct mb_cache definition to include/linux/mbcache.h to resolve the issue. Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-01-10ext3: Remove redundant unlikely()Tobias Klauser
IS_ERR() already implies unlikely(), so it can be omitted here. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-01-10ext2: Remove redundant unlikely()Tobias Klauser
IS_ERR() already implies unlikely(), so it can be omitted here. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-01-10ext3: speed up file creates by optimizing rec_len functionsEric Sandeen
The addition of 64k block capability in the rec_len_from_disk and rec_len_to_disk functions added a bit of math overhead which slows down file create workloads needlessly when the architecture cannot even support 64k blocks, thanks to page size limits. Similar changes already exist in the ext4 codebase. The directory entry checking can also be optimized a bit by sprinkling in some unlikely() conditions to move the error handling out of line. bonnie++ sequential file creates on a 512MB ramdisk speeds up from about 77,000/s to about 82,000/s, about a 6% improvement. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-01-10ext2: speed up file creates by optimizing rec_len functionsEric Sandeen
The addition of 64k block capability in the rec_len_from_disk and rec_len_to_disk functions added a bit of math overhead which slows down file create workloads needlessly when the architecture cannot even support 64k blocks, thanks to page size limits. The directory entry checking can also be optimized a bit by sprinkling in some unlikely() conditions to move the error handling out of line. bonnie++ sequential file creates on a 512MB ramdisk speeds up from about 2200/s to about 2500/s, about a 14% improvement. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-01-10ext3: Add more journal error checkNamhyung Kim
Check return value of ext3_journal_get_write_acccess() and ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(). Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-01-10ext3: Add journal error check in resize.cNamhyung Kim
Check return value of ext3_journal_get_write_access() and ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(). Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-01-10quota: Use %pV and __attribute__((format (printf in __quota_error and fix ↵Joe Perches
fallout Use %pV in __quota_error so a single printk can not be interleaved with other logging messages. Add __attribute__((format (printf, 3, 4))) so format and arguments can be verified by compiler. Make sure printk formats and arguments match. Block # needed a pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-01-10ext3: Add FITRIM handlingLukas Czerner
The ioctl takes fstrim_range structure (defined in include/linux/fs.h) as an argument specifying a range of filesystem to trim and the minimum size of an continguous extent to trim. After the FITRIM is done, the number of bytes passed from the filesystem down the block stack to the device for potential discard is stored in fstrim_range.len. This number is a maximum discard amount from the storage device's perspective, because FITRIM called repeatedly will keep sending the same sectors for discard. fstrim_range.len will report the same potential discard bytes each time, but only sectors which had been written to between the discards would actually be discarded by the storage device. Further, the kernel block layer reserves the right to adjust the discard ranges to fit raid stripe geometry, non-trim capable devices in a LVM setup, etc. These reductions would not be reflected in fstrim_range.len. Thus fstrim_range.len can give the user better insight on how much storage space has potentially been released for wear-leveling, but it needs to be one of only one criteria the userspace tools take into account when trying to optimize calls to FITRIM. Thanks to Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> for better commit message. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-01-10ext3: Add batched discard support for ext3Lukas Czerner
Walk through allocation groups and trim all free extents. It can be invoked through FITRIM ioctl on the file system. The main idea is to provide a way to trim the whole file system if needed, since some SSD's may suffer from performance loss after the whole device was filled (it does not mean that fs is full!). It search for free extents in allocation groups specified by Byte range start -> start+len. When the free extent is within this range, blocks are marked as used and then trimmed. Afterwards these blocks are marked as free in per-group bitmap. [JK: Fixed up error handling and trimming of a single group] Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-01-10ext4: don't pass entire map to check_eofblocks_flEric Sandeen
Since check_eofblocks_fl() only uses the m_lblk portion of the map structure, we may as well pass that directly, rather than passing the entire map, which IMHO obfuscates what parameters check_eofblocks_fl() cares about. Not a big deal, but seems tidier and less confusing, to me. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_free_branchesTheodore Ts'o
Commit 40389687 moved a call to ext4_forget() out of ext4_free_branches and let ext4_free_blocks() handle calling bforget(). But that change unfortunately did not replace the call to ext4_forget() with brelse(), which was needed to drop the in-use count of the indirect block's buffer head, which lead to a memory leak when deleting files that used indirect blocks. Fix this. Thanks to Hugh Dickins for pointing this out. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10ext4: remove ext4_mb_return_to_preallocation()Theodore Ts'o
This function was never implemented, except for a BUG_ON which was tripping when ext4 is run without a journal. The problem is that although the comment asserts that "truncate (which is the only way to free block) discards all preallocations", ext4_free_blocks() is also called in various error recovery paths when blocks have been allocated, but for various reasons, we were not able to use those data blocks (for example, because we ran out of memory while trying to manipulate the extent tree, or some other similar situation). In addition to the fact that this function isn't implemented except for the incorrect BUG_ON, the single caller of this function, ext4_free_blocks(), doesn't use it all if the journal is enabled. So remove the (stub) function entirely for now. If we decide it's better to add it back, it's only going to be useful with a relatively large number of code changes anyway. Google-Bug-Id: 3236408 Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10ext4: flush the i_completed_io_list during ext4_truncateJiaying Zhang
Ted first found the bug when running 2.6.36 kernel with dioread_nolock mount option that xfstests #13 complained about wrong file size during fsck. However, the bug exists in the older kernels as well although it is somehow harder to trigger. The problem is that ext4_end_io_work() can happen after we have truncated an inode to a smaller size. Then when ext4_end_io_work() calls ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(), we may reallocate some blocks that have been truncated, so the inode size becomes inconsistent with the allocated blocks. The following patch flushes the i_completed_io_list during truncate to reduce the risk that some pending end_io requests are executed later and convert already truncated blocks to initialized. Note that although the fix helps reduce the problem a lot there may still be a race window between vmtruncate() and ext4_end_io_work(). The fundamental problem is that if vmtruncate() is called without either i_mutex or i_alloc_sem held, it can race with an ongoing write request so that the io_end request is processed later when the corresponding blocks have been truncated. Ted and I have discussed the problem offline and we saw a few ways to fix the race completely: a) We guarantee that i_mutex lock and i_alloc_sem write lock are both hold whenever vmtruncate() is called. The i_mutex lock prevents any new write requests from entering writeback and the i_alloc_sem prevents the race from ext4_page_mkwrite(). Currently we hold both locks if vmtruncate() is called from do_truncate(), which is probably the most common case. However, there are places where we may call vmtruncate() without holding either i_mutex or i_alloc_sem. I would like to ask for other people's opinions on what locks are expected to be held before calling vmtruncate(). There seems a disagreement among the callers of that function. b) We change the ext4 write path so that we change the extent tree to contain the newly allocated blocks and update i_size both at the same time --- when the write of the data blocks is completed. c) We add some additional locking to synchronize vmtruncate() and ext4_end_io_work(). This approach may have performance implications so we need to be careful. All of the above proposals may require more substantial changes, so we may consider to take the following patch as a bandaid. Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>