[PATCH] ext3_getblk() should handle HOLE correctly

It has been reported that ext3_getblk() is not doing the right thing and
triggering following WARN():

BUG: warning at fs/ext3/inode.c:1016/ext3_getblk()
 <c01c5140> ext3_getblk+0x98/0x2a6  <c03b2806> md_wakeup_thread+0x26/0x2a
 <c01c536d> ext3_bread+0x1f/0x88  <c01cedf9> ext3_quota_read+0x136/0x1ae
 <c018b683> v1_read_dqblk+0x61/0xac  <c0188f32> dquot_acquire+0xf6/0x107
 <c01ceaba> ext3_acquire_dquot+0x46/0x68  <c01897d4> dqget+0x155/0x1e7
 <c018a97b> dquot_transfer+0x3e0/0x3e9  <c016fe52> dput+0x23/0x13e
 <c01c7986> ext3_setattr+0xc3/0x240  <c0120f66> current_fs_time+0x52/0x6a
 <c017320e> notify_change+0x2bd/0x30d  <c0159246> chown_common+0x9c/0xc5
 <c02a222c> strncpy_from_user+0x3b/0x68  <c0167fe6> do_path_lookup+0xdf/0x266
 <c016841b> __user_walk_fd+0x44/0x5a  <c01592b9> sys_chown+0x4a/0x55
 <c015a43c> vfs_write+0xe7/0x13c  <c01695d4> sys_mkdir+0x1f/0x23
 <c0102a97> syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Looking at the code, it looks like it's not handle HOLE correctly.  It ends
up returning -EIO.  Here is the patch to fix it.

If we really want to be paranoid, we can allow return values 0 (HOLE), 1
(we asked for one block) and return -EIO for more than 1 block.  But I
really don't see a reason for doing it - all we need is the block# here.
(doesn't matter how many blocks are mapped).

ext3_get_blocks_handle() returns number of blocks it mapped.  It returns 0
in case of HOLE.  ext3_getblk() should handle HOLE properly (currently its
dumping warning stack and returning -EIO).

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
index c5ee9f0691e3..0f0b1eadb98d 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -1009,11 +1009,14 @@ struct buffer_head *ext3_getblk(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
         buffer_trace_init(&dummy.b_history);
         err = ext3_get_blocks_handle(handle, inode, block, 1,
                                         &dummy, create, 1);
-        if (err == 1) {
+        /*
+         * ext3_get_blocks_handle() returns number of blocks
+         * mapped. 0 in case of a HOLE.
+         */
+        if (err > 0) {
+                if (err > 1)
+                        WARN_ON(1);
                 err = 0;
-        } else if (err >= 0) {
-                WARN_ON(1);
-                err = -EIO;
         }
         *errp = err;
         if (!err && buffer_mapped(&dummy)) {