1 files changed, 32 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 91341ec6e06a..cd0c7ed06772 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -1891,11 +1891,10 @@ has_space:
         nearex->ee_len = newext->ee_len;
 
 merge:
-        /* try to merge extents to the right */
+        /* try to merge extents */
         if (!(flag & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO))
                 ext4_ext_try_to_merge(inode, path, nearex);
 
-        /* try to merge extents to the left */
 
         /* time to correct all indexes above */
         err = ext4_ext_correct_indexes(handle, inode, path);
@@ -2570,10 +2569,10 @@ static int ext4_ext_remove_space(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t start,
 {
         struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
         int depth = ext_depth(inode);
-        struct ext4_ext_path *path;
+        struct ext4_ext_path *path = NULL;
         ext4_fsblk_t partial_cluster = 0;
         handle_t *handle;
-        int i, err;
+        int i = 0, err;
 
         ext_debug("truncate since %u to %u\n", start, end);
 
@@ -2606,8 +2605,12 @@ again:
                 }
                 depth = ext_depth(inode);
                 ex = path[depth].p_ext;
-                if (!ex)
+                if (!ex) {
+                        ext4_ext_drop_refs(path);
+                        kfree(path);
+                        path = NULL;
                         goto cont;
+                }
 
                 ee_block = le32_to_cpu(ex->ee_block);
 
@@ -2637,8 +2640,6 @@ again:
                         if (err < 0)
                                 goto out;
                 }
-                ext4_ext_drop_refs(path);
-                kfree(path);
         }
 cont:
 
@@ -2647,19 +2648,27 @@ cont:
          * after i_size and walking into the tree depth-wise.
          */
         depth = ext_depth(inode);
-        path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 1), GFP_NOFS);
-        if (path == NULL) {
-                ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-                return -ENOMEM;
-        }
-        path[0].p_depth = depth;
-        path[0].p_hdr = ext_inode_hdr(inode);
+        if (path) {
+                int k = i = depth;
+                while (--k > 0)
+                        path[k].p_block =
+                                le16_to_cpu(path[k].p_hdr->eh_entries)+1;
+        } else {
+                path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 1),
+                               GFP_NOFS);
+                if (path == NULL) {
+                        ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+                        return -ENOMEM;
+                }
+                path[0].p_depth = depth;
+                path[0].p_hdr = ext_inode_hdr(inode);
 
-        if (ext4_ext_check(inode, path[0].p_hdr, depth)) {
-                err = -EIO;
-                goto out;
+                if (ext4_ext_check(inode, path[0].p_hdr, depth)) {
+                        err = -EIO;
+                        goto out;
+                }
         }
-        i = err = 0;
+        err = 0;
 
         while (i >= 0 && err == 0) {
                 if (i == depth) {
@@ -2773,8 +2782,10 @@ cont:
 out:
         ext4_ext_drop_refs(path);
         kfree(path);
-        if (err == -EAGAIN)
+        if (err == -EAGAIN) {
+                path = NULL;
                 goto again;
+        }
         ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 
         return err;
@@ -4420,6 +4431,8 @@ retry:
                 ext4_falloc_update_inode(inode, mode, new_size,
                                          (map.m_flags & EXT4_MAP_NEW));
                 ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
+                if ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) && ret >= max_blocks)
+                        ext4_handle_sync(handle);
                 ret2 = ext4_journal_stop(handle);
                 if (ret2)
                         break;