Re: [PATCH 3.2 019/102] xfs: don't dirty buffers beyond EOF

[Dave Chinner]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 10:28:03PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 3.2.64-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to pull stuff like this back into
really old stable kernels. This was part of a much larger series of
bug fixes that were fairly carefully tested. I very much doubt that
there is specific XFS test coverage on these older kernels that
would determine if this has introduced problems or not....
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 22e757a49cf010703fcb9c9b4ef793248c39b0c2 upstream.
> 
> generic/263 is failing fsx at this point with a page spanning
> EOF that cannot be invalidated. The operations are:
> 
> 1190 mapwrite   0x52c00 thru    0x5e569 (0xb96a bytes)
> 1191 mapread    0x5c000 thru    0x5d636 (0x1637 bytes)
> 1192 write      0x5b600 thru    0x771ff (0x1bc00 bytes)

I've got no idea whether generic/263 even exposes this problem
on 3.2 kernels, or whether there's a bunch of the other upstream
changes that need to be added first to expose it... :/

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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