Currently ext4_ind_migrate() doesn't correctly handle a file which
contains a hole at the beginning of the file. This caused the migration
to be done incorrectly, and then if there is a subsequent following
delayed allocation write to the "hole", this would reclaim the same data
blocks again and results in fs corruption.
# assmuing 4k block size ext4, with delalloc enabled
# skip the first block and write to the second block
xfs_io -fc "pwrite 4k 4k" -c "fsync" /mnt/ext4/testfile
# converting to indirect-mapped file, which would move the data blocks
# to the beginning of the file, but extent status cache still marks
# that region as a hole
chattr -e /mnt/ext4/testfile
# delayed allocation writes to the "hole", reclaim the same data block
# again, results in i_blocks corruption
xfs_io -c "pwrite 0 4k" /mnt/ext4/testfile
umount /mnt/ext4
e2fsck -nf /dev/sda6
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Inode 53, i_blocks is 16, should be 8. Fix? no
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Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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