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Commit 8a850c3f authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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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: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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