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fs: don't allocate blocks beyond EOF from __mpage_writepage

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When __mpage_writepage() is called for a page beyond EOF, it will go and
allocate all blocks underlying the page.  This is not only unnecessary but
this way blocks can get leaked (e.g.  if a page beyond EOF is marked dirty
but in the end write fails and i_size is not extended).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230103104430.27749-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Kara 2023-01-03 11:44:30 +01:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 6c364edc19
commit 4b89a37d54
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@ -524,6 +524,12 @@ static int __mpage_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
*/
BUG_ON(!PageUptodate(page));
block_in_file = (sector_t)page->index << (PAGE_SHIFT - blkbits);
/*
* Whole page beyond EOF? Skip allocating blocks to avoid leaking
* space.
*/
if (block_in_file >= (i_size + (1 << blkbits) - 1) >> blkbits)
goto page_is_mapped;
last_block = (i_size - 1) >> blkbits;
map_bh.b_page = page;
for (page_block = 0; page_block < blocks_per_page; ) {