ocfs2: Zero the tail cluster when extending past i_size.

ocfs2's allocation unit is the cluster.  This can be larger than a block
or even a memory page.  This means that a file may have many blocks in
its last extent that are beyond the block containing i_size.  There also
may be more unwritten extents after that.

When ocfs2 grows a file, it zeros the entire cluster in order to ensure
future i_size growth will see cleared blocks.  Unfortunately,
block_write_full_page() drops the pages past i_size.  This means that
ocfs2 is actually leaking garbage data into the tail end of that last
cluster.  This is a bug.

We adjust ocfs2_write_begin_nolock() and ocfs2_extend_file() to detect
when a write or truncate is past i_size.  They will use
ocfs2_zero_extend() to ensure the data is properly zeroed.

Older versions of ocfs2_zero_extend() simply zeroed every block between
i_size and the zeroing position.  This presumes three things:

1) There is allocation for all of these blocks.
2) The extents are not unwritten.
3) The extents are not refcounted.

(1) and (2) hold true for non-sparse filesystems, which used to be the
only users of ocfs2_zero_extend().  (3) is another bug.

Since we're now using ocfs2_zero_extend() for sparse filesystems as
well, we teach ocfs2_zero_extend() to check every extent between
i_size and the zeroing position.  If the extent is unwritten, it is
ignored.  If it is refcounted, it is CoWed.  Then it is zeroed.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.h b/fs/ocfs2/file.h
index d66cf4f..97bf761 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.h
@@ -54,8 +54,10 @@ int ocfs2_add_inode_data(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 int ocfs2_simple_size_update(struct inode *inode,
 			     struct buffer_head *di_bh,
 			     u64 new_i_size);
-int ocfs2_extend_no_holes(struct inode *inode, u64 new_i_size,
-			  u64 zero_to);
+int ocfs2_extend_no_holes(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *di_bh,
+			  u64 new_i_size, u64 zero_to);
+int ocfs2_zero_extend(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *di_bh,
+		      loff_t zero_to);
 int ocfs2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr);
 int ocfs2_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry,
 		  struct kstat *stat);