On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:39:06 -0700
Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Its been reported that ext3_getblk() is not doing the right thing
> and triggering following WARN():
> 
> BUG: warning at fs/ext3/inode.c:1016/ext3_getblk()
>  <c01c5140> ext3_getblk+0x98/0x2a6  <c03b2806> md_wakeup_thread
> +0x26/0x2a
>  <c01c536d> ext3_bread+0x1f/0x88  <c01cedf9> ext3_quota_read+0x136/0x1ae
>  <c018b683> v1_read_dqblk+0x61/0xac  <c0188f32> dquot_acquire+0xf6/0x107
>  <c01ceaba> ext3_acquire_dquot+0x46/0x68  <c01897d4> dqget+0x155/0x1e7
>  <c018a97b> dquot_transfer+0x3e0/0x3e9  <c016fe52> dput+0x23/0x13e
>  <c01c7986> ext3_setattr+0xc3/0x240  <c0120f66> current_fs_time
> +0x52/0x6a
>  <c017320e> notify_change+0x2bd/0x30d  <c0159246> chown_common+0x9c/0xc5
>  <c02a222c> strncpy_from_user+0x3b/0x68  <c0167fe6> do_path_lookup
> +0xdf/0x266
>  <c016841b> __user_walk_fd+0x44/0x5a  <c01592b9> sys_chown+0x4a/0x55
>  <c015a43c> vfs_write+0xe7/0x13c  <c01695d4> sys_mkdir+0x1f/0x23
>  <c0102a97> syscall_call+0x7/0xb 
> 
> Looking at the code, it looks like its not handle HOLE correctly.
> It ends up returning -EIO.

Strange.  The fs should be spewing these warnings all over the place.  For
some reason this code is hard to trigger.  Why??

> -     if (err == 1) {
> +     /*
> +      * ext3_get_blocks_handle() returns number of blocks
> +      * mapped. 0 in case of a HOLE.
> +      */
> +     if (err > 0) {
>               err = 0;
> -     } else if (err >= 0) {
> -             WARN_ON(1);
> -             err = -EIO;
>       }

That removes the warning if ext3_get_blocks_handle() returned a positive
number greater than one.  And it looks like we still need debugging support
in this area.

I reworked it like this:

--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3_getblk-should-handle-hole-correctly
+++ a/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -1010,11 +1010,14 @@ struct buffer_head *ext3_getblk(handle_t
        buffer_trace_init(&dummy.b_history);
        err = ext3_get_blocks_handle(handle, inode, block, 1,
                                        &dummy, create, 1);
-       if (err == 1) {
+       /*
+        * ext3_get_blocks_handle() returns number of blocks
+        * mapped. 0 in case of a HOLE.
+        */
+       if (err > 0) {
+               if (err > 1)
+                       WARN_ON(1);
                err = 0;
-       } else if (err >= 0) {
-               WARN_ON(1);
-               err = -EIO;
        }
        *errp = err;
        if (!err && buffer_mapped(&dummy)) {
_

ie:

        /*
         * ext3_get_blocks_handle() returns number of blocks
         * mapped. 0 in case of a HOLE.
         */
        if (err > 0) {
                if (err > 1)
                        WARN_ON(1);
                err = 0;
        }
        *errp = err;

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