From: Zhang Yi When splitting an unwritten extent in the middle and converting it to initialized in ext4_split_extent() with the EXT4_EXT_MAY_ZEROOUT and EXT4_EXT_DATA_VALID2 flags set, it could leave a stale unwritten extent. Assume we have an unwritten file and buffered write in the middle of it without dioread_nolock enabled, it will allocate blocks as written extent. 0 A B N [UUUUUUUUUUUU] on-disk extent U: unwritten extent [UUUUUUUUUUUU] extent status tree [--DDDDDDDD--] D: valid data |<- ->| ----> this range needs to be initialized ext4_split_extent() first try to split this extent at B with EXT4_EXT_DATA_PARTIAL_VALID1 and EXT4_EXT_MAY_ZEROOUT flag set, but ext4_split_extent_at() failed to split this extent due to temporary lack of space. It zeroout B to N and leave the entire extent as unwritten. 0 A B N [UUUUUUUUUUUU] on-disk extent [UUUUUUUUUUUU] extent status tree [--DDDDDDDDZZ] Z: zeroed data ext4_split_extent() then try to split this extent at A with EXT4_EXT_DATA_VALID2 flag set. This time, it split successfully and leave an written extent from A to N. 0 A B N [UUWWWWWWWWWW] on-disk extent W: written extent [UUUUUUUUUUUU] extent status tree [--DDDDDDDDZZ] Finally ext4_map_create_blocks() only insert extent A to B to the extent status tree, and leave an stale unwritten extent in the status tree. 0 A B N [UUWWWWWWWWWW] on-disk extent W: written extent [UUWWWWWWWWUU] extent status tree [--DDDDDDDDZZ] Fix this issue by always cached extent status entry after zeroing out the second part. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Baokun Li Cc: stable@kernel.org --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index be9fd2ab8667..1094e4923451 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -3319,8 +3319,16 @@ static struct ext4_ext_path *ext4_split_extent_at(handle_t *handle, * extent length and ext4_split_extent() split will the * first half again. */ - if (split_flag & EXT4_EXT_DATA_PARTIAL_VALID1) + if (split_flag & EXT4_EXT_DATA_PARTIAL_VALID1) { + /* + * Drop extent cache to prevent stale unwritten + * extents remaining after zeroing out. + */ + ext4_es_remove_extent(inode, + le32_to_cpu(zero_ex.ee_block), + ext4_ext_get_actual_len(&zero_ex)); goto fix_extent_len; + } /* update the extent length and mark as initialized */ ex->ee_len = cpu_to_le16(ee_len); -- 2.46.1