Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ext4: treat end of range as exclusive in ext4_zero_range()

From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Nov 02 2023 - 06:08:56 EST


On Wed 01-11-23 22:08:10, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> 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>

Looks good to me. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> fs/ext4/extents.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index 880f383df684..265ae30a51b9 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 +4609,8 @@ 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
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR