[PATCH] xfs: handle EOF correctly in xfs_vm_writepage
Mark Tinguely
tinguely at sgi.com
Mon Jul 16 11:05:38 CDT 2012
On 07/03/12 11:20, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> We need to zero out part of a page which beyond EOF before setting uptodate,
> otherwise, mapread or write will see non-zero data beyond EOF.
>
> Based on the code in fs/buffer.c and the following ext4 commit:
>
> ext4: handle EOF correctly in ext4_bio_write_page()
>
> And yes, I wish we had a good test case for it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig<hch at lst.de>
>
> ---
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely at sgi.com>
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