Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] f2fs: atomic: fix to truncate pagecache before on-disk metadata truncation

From: Chao Yu
Date: Mon Jul 29 2024 - 21:29:17 EST


On 2024/7/30 0:26, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
On 07/26, Chao Yu wrote:
We should always truncate pagecache while truncating on-disk data.

Fixes: a46bebd502fe ("f2fs: synchronize atomic write aborts")
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- fix to use cow_inode instead of inode
fs/f2fs/file.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index 6c62f76474d1..54886ddcb8ab 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -2202,6 +2202,7 @@ static int f2fs_ioc_start_atomic_write(struct file *filp, bool truncate)
F2FS_I(fi->cow_inode)->atomic_inode = inode;
} else {
/* Reuse the already created COW inode */
+ truncate_setsize(fi->cow_inode, 0);

What if the below truncation failed?

What about just dropping page cache and do not set isize to 0?

Thanks,


ret = f2fs_do_truncate_blocks(fi->cow_inode, 0, true);
if (ret) {
f2fs_up_write(&fi->i_gc_rwsem[WRITE]);
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2.40.1