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[XFS] Fix sub-block zeroing for buffered writes into unwritten extents. 

When writing less than a filesystem block of data into an unwritten extent
via buffered I/O, __xfs_get_blocks fails to set the buffer new flag. As a
result, the generic code will not zero either edge of the block resulting
in garbage being written to disk either side of the real data. Set the
buffer new state on bufferd writes to unwritten extents to ensure that
zeroing occurs.

SGI-PV: 960328
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28000a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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David Chinner 2007-02-10 18:36:35 +11:00 committed by Tim Shimmin
parent 5478eead85
commit 549054afad
1 changed files with 9 additions and 4 deletions
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fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
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@ -1283,13 +1283,18 @@ __xfs_get_blocks(
bh_result->b_bdev = iomap.iomap_target->bt_bdev;
/*
* If we previously allocated a block out beyond eof and we are
* now coming back to use it then we will need to flag it as new
* even if it has a disk address.
* If we previously allocated a block out beyond eof and we are now
* coming back to use it then we will need to flag it as new even if it
* has a disk address.
*
* With sub-block writes into unwritten extents we also need to mark
* the buffer as new so that the unwritten parts of the buffer gets
* correctly zeroed.
*/
if (create &&
((!buffer_mapped(bh_result) && !buffer_uptodate(bh_result)) ||
(offset >= i_size_read(inode)) || (iomap.iomap_flags & IOMAP_NEW)))
(offset >= i_size_read(inode)) ||
(iomap.iomap_flags & (IOMAP_NEW|IOMAP_UNWRITTEN))))
set_buffer_new(bh_result);
if (iomap.iomap_flags & IOMAP_DELAY) {