[GFS2] inode size inconsistency

This should have been part of the NFS patch #1 but somehow I missed it
when packaging the patches. It is not a critical issue as the others (I
hope). RHEL 5.1 31.el5 kernel runs fine without this change.

Our truncate code is chopped into two parts, one for vfs inode changes
(in vmtruncate()) and one of gfs inode (in gfs2_truncatei()). These two
operatons are, unfortunately, not atomic. So it could happens that
vmtruncate() succeeds (inode->i_size is changed) but gfs2_truncatei
fails (say kernel temporarily out of memory). This would leave gfs inode
i_di.di_size out of sync with vfs inode i_size. It will later confuse
gfs2_commit_write() if a write is issued. Last time I checked, it will
cause file corruption.

Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c
index 84051b997a43739f866e8b25adebe60904b9eb6c..911c115b5c6c29ecf16aabe087c2be507bb58f71 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c
@@ -903,8 +903,8 @@ static int setattr_size(struct inode *inode, struct iattr *attr)
        }
 
        error = gfs2_truncatei(ip, attr->ia_size);
-       if (error)
-               return error;
+       if (error && (inode->i_size != ip->i_di.di_size))
+               i_size_write(inode, ip->i_di.di_size);
 
        return error;
 }