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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 61277f7f8722..96d3211508a0 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -3630,6 +3630,12 @@ void ext4_set_aops(struct inode *inode) inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &ext4_aops; } +/* + * Here we can't skip an unwritten buffer even though it usually reads zero + * because it might have data in pagecache (eg, if called from ext4_zero_range, + * ext4_punch_hole, etc) which needs to be properly zeroed out. Otherwise a + * racing writeback can come later and flush the stale pagecache to disk. + */ static int __ext4_block_zero_page_range(handle_t *handle, struct address_space *mapping, loff_t from, loff_t length) { |