[Devel] [PATCH] incorrect direct io error handling

[Dmitriy Monakhov]

This patch is result of discussion started week ago here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/11/66
changes from original patch:
 - Update wrong comments about i_mutex locking.
 - Add BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(..)) for non blkdev. 
 - vmtruncate call only for non blockdev
LOG:
If generic_file_direct_write() has fail (ENOSPC condition) inside 
__generic_file_aio_write_nolock() it may have instantiated
a few blocks outside i_size. And fsck will complain about wrong i_size
(ext2, ext3 and reiserfs interpret i_size and biggest block difference as error),
after fsck will fix error i_size will be increased to the biggest block,
but this blocks contain gurbage from previous write attempt, this is not 
information leak, but its silence file data corruption. This issue affect 
fs regardless the values of blocksize or pagesize.
We need truncate any block beyond i_size after write have failed , do in simular
generic_file_buffered_write() error path. If host is !S_ISBLK i_mutex always
held inside generic_file_aio_write_nolock() and we may safely call vmtruncate().
Some fs (XFS at least) may directly call generic_file_direct_write()with 
i_mutex not held. There is no general scenario in this case. This fs have to 
handle generic_file_direct_write() error by its own specific way (place).      

Issue was found during OpenVZ kernel testing.

Exampe:
open("mnt2/FILE3", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_DIRECT, 0666) = 3
write(3, "aaaaaa"..., 4096) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device)

stat mnt2/FILE3
File: `mnt2/FILE3'
Size: 0               Blocks: 4          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>^^^^^^^^^^ file size is less than biggest block idx
Device: 700h/1792d      Inode: 14          Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)

fsck.ext2 -f -n  mnt1/fs_img
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inode 14, i_size is 0, should be 2048.  Fix? no

Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov at openvz.org>
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