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Commit 7f556567 authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds
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tmpfs: fix regression hang in fallocate undo



The well-spotted fallocate undo fix is good in most cases, but not when
fallocate failed on the very first page.  index 0 then passes lend -1
to shmem_undo_range(), and that has two bad effects: (a) that it will
undo every fallocation throughout the file, unrestricted by the current
range; but more importantly (b) it can cause the undo to hang, because
lend -1 is treated as truncation, which makes it keep on retrying until
every page has gone, but those already fully instantiated will never go
away.  Big thank you to xfstests generic/269 which demonstrates this.

Fixes: b9b4bb26 ("tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 617a8d6b
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