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[PATCH] revert "retries in ext3_prepare_write() violate ordering requirements"
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 2 Apr 2007 06:49:43 +0000 (23:49 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:06:08 +0000 (10:06 -0700)
commit139ec5ba70526d6c67354bf29a2d2addd868a34e
tree52a18d3d83f28e8a736775c2a88ad9cb60f48da6
parent7ac45f265df585e6f1216a5e523411abf7775187
[PATCH] revert "retries in ext3_prepare_write() violate ordering requirements"

Revert b8b896a9f57cf27ea3f34191c60d6a3de19e610a.

Dmitry points out

"When we block_prepare_write() failed while ext3_prepare_write() we jump to
 "failure" label and call ext3_prepare_failure() witch search last mapped bh
 and invoke commit_write untill it.  This is wrong!!  because some bh from
 begining to the last mapped bh may be not uptodate.  As a result we commit to
 disk not uptodate page content witch contains garbage from previous usage."

and

"Unexpected file size increasing."

   Call trace the same as it was in first issue but result is different.
   For example we have file with i_size is zero.  we want write two blocks ,
   but fs has only one free block.

   ->ext3_prepare_write(...from == 0, to == 2048)
     retry:
     ->block_prepare_write() == -ENOSPC# we failed but allocated one block here.
     ->ext3_prepare_failure()
       ->commit_write( from == 0, to == 1024) # after this i_size becomes 1024 :)
     if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext3_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
        goto retry;

   Finally when all retries will be spended ext3_prepare_failure return
   -ENOSPC, but i_size was increased and later block trimm procedures can't
   help here.

We don't appear to have the horsepower to fix these issues, so let's put
things back the way they were for now.

Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ext3/inode.c