ext4: handle EOF correctly in ext4_bio_write_page()

commit 5a0dc7365c240795bf190766eba7a27600be3b3e upstream.

We need to zero out part of a page which beyond EOF before setting uptodate,
otherwise, mapread or write will see non-zero data beyond EOF.

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index bd6a85e33c97581fa832ed1e4eb9720aba19d721..d99d74aca8a70c3affeaf1ecb6b34d9630f8cf1d 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -405,6 +405,18 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
 
                block_end = block_start + blocksize;
                if (block_start >= len) {
+                       /*
+                        * Comments copied from block_write_full_page_endio:
+                        *
+                        * The page straddles i_size.  It must be zeroed out on
+                        * each and every writepage invocation because it may
+                        * be mmapped.  "A file is mapped in multiples of the
+                        * page size.  For a file that is not a multiple of
+                        * the  page size, the remaining memory is zeroed when
+                        * mapped, and writes to that region are not written
+                        * out to the file."
+                        */
+                       zero_user_segment(page, block_start, block_end);
                        clear_buffer_dirty(bh);
                        set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
                        continue;