[PATCH v3 1/2] fuse: zero the partial EOF page when extending a file
From: Jimmy Zuber
Date: Thu Aug 20 2026 - 08:37:15 EST
Extending a fuse file past a non-page-aligned EOF does not zero the tail of
the old last page. When that page is cached and has been mmap-dirtied beyond
the old EOF, the now in-bounds tail is served to later reads as stale data
rather than zeros, which violates POSIX file-extension semantics.
Some file systems get this zeroing automatically at writeback time
(block_write_full_folio() / iomap_writeback_handle_eof() zero the tail of the
folio straddling i_size). A non-writeback caching fuse file system uses neither
path, so it has to zero the tail itself from the size-extending paths, like
XFS (xfs_file_write_zero_eof()) and ext4 (ext4_block_zero_eof()) do.
pagecache_isize_extended() cannot be reused: it is a no-op when
i_blocksize() >= PAGE_SIZE, and would increase the work in that function
for use cases that don't need it, if changed to support this situation.
Add fuse_zero_partial_eof_folio(), which zeroes the tail of the old EOF
folio, and call it up front from the three paths that extend a file,
mirroring xfs_file_write_zero_eof() and ext4_block_zero_eof():
- a buffered write whose position is past the old EOF (fuse_perform_write(),
before the page cache is filled);
- a size-extending setattr/truncate (fuse_do_setattr());
- a size-extending fallocate (fuse_file_fallocate()).
Zeroing [old EOF, write start) before the write, rather than after it, keeps
the zeroed range disjoint from the written data, so a write that lands inside
the old EOF folio is preserved without special-casing.
writeback_cache connections are unaffected, as their writes go through
iomap_file_buffered_write(), which zeroes post-EOF folios. The bug is
observable on a non-writeback_cache server that returns FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE on
writable files (without FOPEN_DIRECT_IO), and is caught by the new
write_extend_eof fuse selftest.
Signed-off-by: Jimmy Zuber <jamz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fuse/dir.c | 3 +++
fs/fuse/file.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 60 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
index 795e92037ce7..f6614ccef186 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -2282,6 +2282,9 @@ int fuse_do_setattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
*/
if ((is_truncate || !is_wb) &&
S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && oldsize != outarg.attr.size) {
+ if (outarg.attr.size > oldsize)
+ fuse_zero_partial_eof_folio(inode, oldsize,
+ outarg.attr.size);
truncate_pagecache(inode, outarg.attr.size);
invalidate_inode_pages2(mapping);
}
diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
index cb8da4c06d17..57630ad0af66 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/file.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
#include <linux/splice.h>
#include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
#include <linux/iomap.h>
+#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/rmap.h>
static int fuse_send_open(struct fuse_mount *fm, u64 nodeid,
unsigned int open_flags, int opcode,
@@ -1200,6 +1202,43 @@ static ssize_t fuse_send_write(struct fuse_io_args *ia, loff_t pos,
return err ?: ia->write.out.size;
}
+/*
+ * A size-extending operation is about to turn [@from, @to) -- the range past a
+ * non-folio-aligned old EOF at @from -- into a hole that must read back as
+ * zero. If the old last folio is cached and was dirtied beyond the old EOF
+ * (e.g. mmap stores into the post-EOF region, which are undefined until the
+ * file grows), zero that tail so it is not exposed as stale data instead of
+ * zeros (xfstests generic/363). Only the folio straddling @from can hold such
+ * bytes, so a single folio is handled, as in pagecache_isize_extended().
+ *
+ * Callers hold i_rwsem, serialising this against concurrent writes and
+ * truncates; it must not run under fi->lock, as it locks the folio.
+ */
+void fuse_zero_partial_eof_folio(struct inode *inode, loff_t from, loff_t to)
+{
+ struct folio *folio;
+ size_t offset, end;
+
+ if (from >= to)
+ return;
+
+ folio = filemap_lock_folio(inode->i_mapping, from >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ if (IS_ERR(folio))
+ return;
+
+ if (folio_mkclean(folio))
+ folio_mark_dirty(folio);
+
+ if (folio_test_dirty(folio)) {
+ offset = offset_in_folio(folio, from);
+ end = min_t(loff_t, to - folio_pos(folio), folio_size(folio));
+ folio_zero_segment(folio, offset, end);
+ }
+
+ folio_unlock(folio);
+ folio_put(folio);
+}
+
bool fuse_write_update_attr(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, ssize_t written)
{
struct fuse_conn *fc = get_fuse_conn(inode);
@@ -1368,9 +1407,19 @@ static ssize_t fuse_perform_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *ii)
struct fuse_conn *fc = get_fuse_conn(inode);
struct fuse_inode *fi = get_fuse_inode(inode);
loff_t pos = iocb->ki_pos;
+ loff_t old_size = i_size_read(inode);
int err = 0;
ssize_t res = 0;
+ /*
+ * If the write starts past a non-aligned EOF, zero the old EOF folio's
+ * tail before filling the page cache, so [old_size, pos) reads as the
+ * hole it is. The write below fills from @pos, disjoint from this
+ * range.
+ */
+ if (pos > old_size)
+ fuse_zero_partial_eof_folio(inode, old_size, pos);
+
if (inode->i_size < pos + iov_iter_count(ii))
set_bit(FUSE_I_SIZE_UNSTABLE, &fi->state);
@@ -2913,6 +2962,13 @@ static long fuse_file_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
/* we could have extended the file */
if (!(mode & FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE)) {
+ /*
+ * fallocate writes no data, so the whole extension past the old
+ * EOF is a hole; zero the old EOF folio's tail before publishing
+ * the new size.
+ */
+ fuse_zero_partial_eof_folio(inode, i_size_read(inode),
+ offset + length);
if (fuse_write_update_attr(inode, offset + length, length))
file_update_time(file);
}
diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
index 85f738c53122..ee3b91b56fef 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
+++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
@@ -1183,6 +1183,7 @@ long fuse_ioctl_common(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
__poll_t fuse_file_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait);
bool fuse_write_update_attr(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, ssize_t written);
+void fuse_zero_partial_eof_folio(struct inode *inode, loff_t from, loff_t to);
int fuse_flush_times(struct inode *inode, struct fuse_file *ff);
int fuse_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc);
--
2.50.1