[PATCH 1/3] ext4: treat end of range as exclusive in ext4_zero_range()

From: Ojaswin Mujoo
Date: Fri Sep 29 2023 - 10:11:05 EST


The call to filemap_write_and_wait_range() assumes the range passed to be
inclusive, so fix the call to make sure we follow that.

Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/extents.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index e4115d338f10..c79b4c25afc4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -4522,7 +4522,8 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
* Round up offset. This is not fallocate, we need to zero out
* blocks, so convert interior block aligned part of the range to
* unwritten and possibly manually zero out unaligned parts of the
- * range.
+ * range. Here, start and partial_begin are inclusive, end and
+ * partial_end are exclusive.
*/
start = round_up(offset, 1 << blkbits);
end = round_down((offset + len), 1 << blkbits);
@@ -4608,7 +4609,7 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
* disk in case of crash before zeroing trans is committed.
*/
if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) {
- ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, start, end);
+ ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, start, end - 1);
if (ret) {
filemap_invalidate_unlock(mapping);
goto out_mutex;
--
2.39.3