From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:53:28 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: ext4: Make ext4_bio_writepage() handle unprepared buffers
X-Git-Tag: v3.9-rc1~64^2~48
X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a850c3fb8d0f204eabc1a32b502f47d3c16eac4;p=~andy%2Flinux

ext4: Make ext4_bio_writepage() handle unprepared buffers

So far ext4_bio_writepage() unconditionally cleared dirty bit on all
buffers underlying the page. That implicitely assumes we can write all
buffers. So far that is true because callers call into
ext4_bio_writepage() make sure all buffers in the page are mapped but:

a) it's a data corruption bug waiting to happen
b) in data=ordered mode when blocksize < pagesize we do need to write
   pages that may have only some of dirty buffers mapped.

So change ext4_bio_writepage() to skip buffers that cannot be written without
clearing their dirty bit.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
---

diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 3fb385cd967..0290bf85f97 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -350,14 +350,6 @@ static int io_submit_add_bh(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
 		unmap_underlying_metadata(bh->b_bdev, bh->b_blocknr);
 	}
 
-	if (!buffer_mapped(bh) || buffer_delay(bh)) {
-		if (!buffer_mapped(bh))
-			clear_buffer_dirty(bh);
-		if (io->io_bio)
-			ext4_io_submit(io);
-		return 0;
-	}
-
 	if (io->io_bio && bh->b_blocknr != io->io_next_block) {
 submit_and_retry:
 		ext4_io_submit(io);
@@ -436,6 +428,15 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
 			set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
 			continue;
 		}
+		if (!buffer_dirty(bh) || buffer_delay(bh) ||
+		    !buffer_mapped(bh) || buffer_unwritten(bh)) {
+			/* A hole? We can safely clear the dirty bit */
+			if (!buffer_mapped(bh))
+				clear_buffer_dirty(bh);
+			if (io->io_bio)
+				ext4_io_submit(io);
+			continue;
+		}
 		ret = io_submit_add_bh(io, io_page, inode, wbc, bh);
 		if (ret) {
 			/*