Patch "tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tmpfs-don-t-undo-fallocate-past-its-last-page.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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b9b4bb26af017dbe930cd4df7f9b2fc3a0497bfeMon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Romano <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:48:43 -0700
Subject: tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page
From: Anthony Romano <[email protected]>
commit b9b4bb26af017dbe930cd4df7f9b2fc3a0497bfe upstream.
When fallocate is interrupted it will undo a range that extends one byte past its range of allocated pages. This can corrupt an in-use page by zeroing out its first byte. Instead, undo using the inclusive byte range.
--- mm/shmem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
mm/shmem.c +1 -1
@@ -1895,7 +1895,7 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file/* Remove the !PageUptodate pages we added */ shmem_undo_range (inode, (loff_t )start <<PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT , - (loff_t )index <<PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT , true); + ((loff_t )index <<PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT ) -1 , true); goto undone; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.14/tmpfs-don-t-undo-fallocate-past-its-last-page.patch