Btrfs: deal with short returns from copy_from_user
When copy_from_user is only able to copy some of the bytes we requested, we may end up creating a partially up to date page. To avoid garbage in the page, we need to treat a partial copy as a zero length copy. This makes the rest of the file_write code drop the page and retry the whole copy instead of marking the partially up to date page as dirty. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> cc: stable@kernel.org
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@ -69,6 +69,19 @@ static noinline int btrfs_copy_from_user(loff_t pos, int num_pages,
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/* Flush processor's dcache for this page */
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flush_dcache_page(page);
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/*
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* if we get a partial write, we can end up with
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* partially up to date pages. These add
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* a lot of complexity, so make sure they don't
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* happen by forcing this copy to be retried.
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*
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* The rest of the btrfs_file_write code will fall
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* back to page at a time copies after we return 0.
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*/
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if (!PageUptodate(page) && copied < count)
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copied = 0;
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iov_iter_advance(i, copied);
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write_bytes -= copied;
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total_copied += copied;
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