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2014-11-19f2fs: remove unneeded check code with option in f2fs_remountChao Yu
Because we have checked the contrary condition in case of "if" judgment, we do not need to check the condition again in case of "else" judgment. Let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2014-11-19f2fs: avoid unable to restart gc thread in remountChao Yu
In f2fs_remount, we will stop gc thread and set need_restart_gc as true when new option is set without BG_GC, then if any error occurred in the following procedure, we can restore to start the gc thread. But after that, We will fail to restore gc thread in start_gc_thread as BG_GC is not set in new option, so we'd better move this condition judgment out of start_gc_thread to fix this issue. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2014-11-19udf: One function call less in udf_fill_super() after error detectionMarkus Elfring
The iput() function was called in up to three cases by the udf_fill_super() function during error handling even if the passed data structure element contained still a null pointer. This implementation detail could be improved by the introduction of another jump label. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-11-19udf: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "iput"Markus Elfring
The iput() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-11-19dlm: adopt orphan locksDavid Teigland
A process may exit, leaving an orphan lock in the lockspace. This adds the capability for another process to acquire the orphan lock. Acquiring the orphan just moves the lock from the orphan list onto the acquiring process's list of locks. An adopting process must specify the resource name and mode of the lock it wants to adopt. If a matching lock is found, the lock is moved to the caller's 's list of locks, and the lkid of the lock is returned like the lkid of a new lock. If an orphan with a different mode is found, then -EAGAIN is returned. If no orphan lock is found on the resource, then -ENOENT is returned. No async completion is used because the result is immediately available. Also, when orphans are purged, allow a zero nodeid to refer to the local nodeid so the caller does not need to look up the local nodeid. Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
2014-11-19nfsd: Fix slot wake up race in the nfsv4.1 callback codeTrond Myklebust
The currect code for nfsd41_cb_get_slot() and nfsd4_cb_done() has no locking in order to guarantee atomicity, and so allows for races of the form. Task 1 Task 2 ====== ====== if (test_and_set_bit(0) != 0) { clear_bit(0) rpc_wake_up_next(queue) rpc_sleep_on(queue) return false; } This patch breaks the race condition by adding a retest of the bit after the call to rpc_sleep_on(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2014-11-19btrfs: fix lockups from btrfs_clear_path_blockingChris Mason
The fair reader/writer locks mean that btrfs_clear_path_blocking needs to strictly follow lock ordering rules even when we already have blocking locks on a given path. Before we can clear a blocking lock on the path, we need to make sure all of the locks have been converted to blocking. This will remove lock inversions against anyone spinning in write_lock() against the buffers we're trying to get read locks on. These inversions didn't exist before the fair read/writer locks, but now we need to be more careful. We papered over this deadlock in the past by changing btrfs_try_read_lock() to be a true trylock against both the spinlock and the blocking lock. This was slower, and not sufficient to fix all the deadlocks. This patch adds a btrfs_tree_read_lock_atomic(), which basically means get the spinlock but trylock on the blocking lock. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Reported-by: Patrick Schmid <schmid@phys.ethz.ch> cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #v3.15+
2014-11-19isofs: avoid unused function warningArnd Bergmann
With the isofs_hash() function removed, isofs_hash_ms() is the only user of isofs_hash_common(), but it's defined inside of an #ifdef, which triggers this gcc warning in ARM axm55xx_defconfig starting with v3.18-rc3: fs/isofs/inode.c:177:1: warning: 'isofs_hash_common' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] This patch moves the function inside of the same #ifdef section to avoid that warning, which seems the best compromise of a relatively harmless patch for a late -rc. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Fixes: b0afd8e5db7b ("isofs: don't bother with ->d_op for normal case") Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19vfs: fix reference leak in d_prune_aliases()Yan, Zheng
In "d_prune_alias(): just lock the parent and call __dentry_kill()" the old dget + d_drop + dput has been replaced with lock_parent + __dentry_kill; unfortunately, dput() does more than just killing dentry - it also drops the reference to parent. New variant leaks that reference and needs dput(parent) after killing the child off. Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zyan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19Merge tag 'trace-seq-file-cleanup' of ↵Al Viro
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into for-next Pull the beginning of seq_file cleanup from Steven: "I'm looking to clean up the seq_file code and to eventually merge the trace_seq code with seq_file as well, since they basically do the same thing. Part of this process is to remove the return code of seq_printf() and friends as they are rather inconsistent. It is better to use the new function seq_has_overflowed() if you want to stop processing when the buffer is full. Note, if the buffer is full, the seq_file code will throw away the contents, allocate a bigger buffer, and then call your code again to fill in the data. The only thing that breaking out of the function early does is to save a little time which is probably never noticed. I started with patches from Joe Perches and modified them as well. There's many more places that need to be updated before we can convert seq_printf() and friends to return void. But this patch set introduces the seq_has_overflowed() and does some initial updates."
2014-11-19dcache: fix kmemcheck warning in switch_namesMikulas Patocka
This patch fixes kmemcheck warning in switch_names. The function switch_names swaps inline names of two dentries. It swaps full arrays d_iname, no matter how many bytes are really used by the strings. Reading data beyond string ends results in kmemcheck warning. We fix the bug by marking both arrays as fully initialized. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15 Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19new helper: audit_file()Al Viro
... for situations when we don't have any candidate in pathnames - basically, in descriptor-based syscalls. [Folded the build fix for !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL configs from Chen Gang] Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19nfsd_vfs_write(): use file_inode()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19ncpfs: use file_inode()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19kill f_dentry usesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19lockd: get rid of ->f_path.dentry->d_sbAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19procfs: get rid of ->f_dentryAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19nfsd: get rid of ->f_dentryAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19rpc_pipefs.c: get rid of f_dentryAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19afs_fsync: don't bother with ->f_path.dentryAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19cifs: get rid of ->f_path.dentry->d_sb uses, add a new helperAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19btrfs: get rid of f_dentry useAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19nfsd/nfsctl.c: new helperAl Viro
... to get from opened file on nfsctl to relevant struct net * Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19assorted conversions to %p[dD]Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19switch d_materialise_unique() users to d_splice_alias()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19merge d_materialise_unique() into d_splice_alias()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19Merge branch 'for-gfs2' into for-nextAl Viro
2014-11-19d_add_ci() should just accept a hashed exact match if it finds oneAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19gfs2_atomic_open(): simplify the use of finish_no_open()Al Viro
In ->atomic_open(inode, dentry, file, opened) calling finish_no_open(file, NULL) is equivalent to dget(dentry); return finish_no_open(file, dentry); No need to open-code that... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19gfs2_create_inode(): don't bother with d_splice_alias()Al Viro
dentry is always hashed and negative, inode - non-error, non-NULL and non-directory. In such conditions d_splice_alias() is equivalent to "d_instantiate(dentry, inode) and return NULL", which simplifies the downstream code and is consistent with the "have to create a new object" case. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19gfs2: bugger off early if O_CREAT open finds a directoryAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-19merge nfs bugfixes into nfsd for-3.19 branchJ. Bruce Fields
In addition to nfsd bugfixes, there are some fixes in -rc5 for client bugs that can interfere with my testing.
2014-11-19nfsd: correctly define v4.2 support attributesChristoph Hellwig
Even when security labels are disabled we support at least the same attributes as v4.1. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2014-11-19Merge branch 'next' of ↵James Morris
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity into next
2014-11-19Merge commit 'v3.17' into nextJames Morris
2014-11-18f2fs: put the inode page when error was occurredJaegeuk Kim
We should put the inode page when error was occurred. Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2014-11-18f2fs: fix to call put_page at the error handling routineJaegeuk Kim
The locked page should be released before returning the function. Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2014-11-18GFS2: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function callsMarkus Elfring
The functions iput() and put_pid() test whether their argument is NULL and then return immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-11-18jbd: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "iput"Markus Elfring
The iput() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-11-17VFS: refactor vfs_read()Dmitry Kasatkin
integrity_kernel_read() duplicates the file read operations code in vfs_read(). This patch refactors vfs_read() code creating a helper function __vfs_read(). It is used by both vfs_read() and integrity_kernel_read(). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-11-18fs: Do not include mpx.h in exec.cDave Hansen
We no longer need mpx.h in exec.c. This will obviously also break the build for non-x86 builds. We get the MPX includes that we need from mmu_context.h now. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141118003608.837015B3@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-11-18x86, mpx: On-demand kernel allocation of bounds tablesDave Hansen
This is really the meat of the MPX patch set. If there is one patch to review in the entire series, this is the one. There is a new ABI here and this kernel code also interacts with userspace memory in a relatively unusual manner. (small FAQ below). Long Description: This patch adds two prctl() commands to provide enable or disable the management of bounds tables in kernel, including on-demand kernel allocation (See the patch "on-demand kernel allocation of bounds tables") and cleanup (See the patch "cleanup unused bound tables"). Applications do not strictly need the kernel to manage bounds tables and we expect some applications to use MPX without taking advantage of this kernel support. This means the kernel can not simply infer whether an application needs bounds table management from the MPX registers. The prctl() is an explicit signal from userspace. PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT is meant to be a signal from userspace to require kernel's help in managing bounds tables. PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT is the opposite, meaning that userspace don't want kernel's help any more. With PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT, the kernel won't allocate and free bounds tables even if the CPU supports MPX. PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT will fetch the base address of the bounds directory out of a userspace register (bndcfgu) and then cache it into a new field (->bd_addr) in the 'mm_struct'. PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT will set "bd_addr" to an invalid address. Using this scheme, we can use "bd_addr" to determine whether the management of bounds tables in kernel is enabled. Also, the only way to access that bndcfgu register is via an xsaves, which can be expensive. Caching "bd_addr" like this also helps reduce the cost of those xsaves when doing table cleanup at munmap() time. Unfortunately, we can not apply this optimization to #BR fault time because we need an xsave to get the value of BNDSTATUS. ==== Why does the hardware even have these Bounds Tables? ==== MPX only has 4 hardware registers for storing bounds information. If MPX-enabled code needs more than these 4 registers, it needs to spill them somewhere. It has two special instructions for this which allow the bounds to be moved between the bounds registers and some new "bounds tables". They are similar conceptually to a page fault and will be raised by the MPX hardware during both bounds violations or when the tables are not present. This patch handles those #BR exceptions for not-present tables by carving the space out of the normal processes address space (essentially calling the new mmap() interface indroduced earlier in this patch set.) and then pointing the bounds-directory over to it. The tables *need* to be accessed and controlled by userspace because the instructions for moving bounds in and out of them are extremely frequent. They potentially happen every time a register pointing to memory is dereferenced. Any direct kernel involvement (like a syscall) to access the tables would obviously destroy performance. ==== Why not do this in userspace? ==== This patch is obviously doing this allocation in the kernel. However, MPX does not strictly *require* anything in the kernel. It can theoretically be done completely from userspace. Here are a few ways this *could* be done. I don't think any of them are practical in the real-world, but here they are. Q: Can virtual space simply be reserved for the bounds tables so that we never have to allocate them? A: As noted earlier, these tables are *HUGE*. An X-GB virtual area needs 4*X GB of virtual space, plus 2GB for the bounds directory. If we were to preallocate them for the 128TB of user virtual address space, we would need to reserve 512TB+2GB, which is larger than the entire virtual address space today. This means they can not be reserved ahead of time. Also, a single process's pre-popualated bounds directory consumes 2GB of virtual *AND* physical memory. IOW, it's completely infeasible to prepopulate bounds directories. Q: Can we preallocate bounds table space at the same time memory is allocated which might contain pointers that might eventually need bounds tables? A: This would work if we could hook the site of each and every memory allocation syscall. This can be done for small, constrained applications. But, it isn't practical at a larger scale since a given app has no way of controlling how all the parts of the app might allocate memory (think libraries). The kernel is really the only place to intercept these calls. Q: Could a bounds fault be handed to userspace and the tables allocated there in a signal handler instead of in the kernel? A: (thanks to tglx) mmap() is not on the list of safe async handler functions and even if mmap() would work it still requires locking or nasty tricks to keep track of the allocation state there. Having ruled out all of the userspace-only approaches for managing bounds tables that we could think of, we create them on demand in the kernel. Based-on-patch-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151829.AD4310DE@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-11-18x86, mpx: Introduce VM_MPX to indicate that a VMA is MPX specificQiaowei Ren
MPX-enabled applications using large swaths of memory can potentially have large numbers of bounds tables in process address space to save bounds information. These tables can take up huge swaths of memory (as much as 80% of the memory on the system) even if we clean them up aggressively. In the worst-case scenario, the tables can be 4x the size of the data structure being tracked. IOW, a 1-page structure can require 4 bounds-table pages. Being this huge, our expectation is that folks using MPX are going to be keen on figuring out how much memory is being dedicated to it. So we need a way to track memory use for MPX. If we want to specifically track MPX VMAs we need to be able to distinguish them from normal VMAs, and keep them from getting merged with normal VMAs. A new VM_ flag set only on MPX VMAs does both of those things. With this flag, MPX bounds-table VMAs can be distinguished from other VMAs, and userspace can also walk /proc/$pid/smaps to get memory usage for MPX. In addition to this flag, we also introduce a special ->vm_ops specific to MPX VMAs (see the patch "add MPX specific mmap interface"), but currently different ->vm_ops do not by themselves prevent VMA merging, so we still need this flag. We understand that VM_ flags are scarce and are open to other options. Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151825.565625B3@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-11-17GFS2: update freeze code to use freeze/thaw_super on all nodesBenjamin Marzinski
The current gfs2 freezing code is considerably more complicated than it should be because it doesn't use the vfs freezing code on any node except the one that begins the freeze. This is because it needs to acquire a cluster glock before calling the vfs code to prevent a deadlock, and without the new freeze_super and thaw_super hooks, that was impossible. To deal with the issue, gfs2 had to do some hacky locking tricks to make sure that a frozen node couldn't be holding on a lock it needed to do the unfreeze ioctl. This patch makes use of the new hooks to simply the gfs2 locking code. Now, all the nodes in the cluster freeze and thaw in exactly the same way. Every node in the cluster caches the freeze glock in the shared state. The new freeze_super hook allows the freezing node to grab this freeze glock in the exclusive state without first calling the vfs freeze_super function. All the nodes in the cluster see this lock change, and call the vfs freeze_super function. The vfs locking code guarantees that the nodes can't get stuck holding the glocks necessary to unfreeze the system. To unfreeze, the freezing node uses the new thaw_super hook to drop the freeze glock. Again, all the nodes notice this, reacquire the glock in shared mode and call the vfs thaw_super function. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-11-17fs: add freeze_super/thaw_super fs hooksBenjamin Marzinski
Currently, freezing a filesystem involves calling freeze_super, which locks sb->s_umount and then calls the fs-specific freeze_fs hook. This makes it hard for gfs2 (and potentially other cluster filesystems) to use the vfs freezing code to do freezes on all the cluster nodes. In order to communicate that a freeze has been requested, and to make sure that only one node is trying to freeze at a time, gfs2 uses a glock (sd_freeze_gl). The problem is that there is no hook for gfs2 to acquire this lock before calling freeze_super. This means that two nodes can attempt to freeze the filesystem by both calling freeze_super, acquiring the sb->s_umount lock, and then attempting to grab the cluster glock sd_freeze_gl. Only one will succeed, and the other will be stuck in freeze_super, making it impossible to finish freezing the node. To solve this problem, this patch adds the freeze_super and thaw_super hooks. If a filesystem implements these hooks, they are called instead of the vfs freeze_super and thaw_super functions. This means that every filesystem that implements these hooks must call the vfs freeze_super and thaw_super functions itself within the hook function to make use of the vfs freezing code. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-11-16Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes before ↵Ingo Molnar
applying more changes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-11-16Merge tag 'efi-next' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into x86/efi Pull EFI updates for v3.19 from Matt Fleming: - Support module unload for efivarfs - Mathias Krause - Another attempt at moving x86 to libstub taking advantage of the __pure attribute - Ard Biesheuvel - Add EFI runtime services section to ptdump - Mathias Krause Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-11-15Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.18-3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfsLinus Torvalds
Pull NFS client bugfixes from Trond Myklebust: "Highlights include: - stable patches to fix NFSv4.x delegation reclaim error paths - fix a bug whereby we were advertising NFSv4.1 but using NFSv4.2 features - fix a use-after-free problem with pNFS block layouts - fix a memory leak in the pNFS files O_DIRECT code - replace an intrusive and Oops-prone performance fix in the NFSv4 atomic open code with a safer one-line version and revert the two original patches" * tag 'nfs-for-3.18-3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: sunrpc: fix sleeping under rcu_read_lock in gss_stringify_acceptor NFS: Don't try to reclaim delegation open state if recovery failed NFSv4: Ensure that we call FREE_STATEID when NFSv4.x stateids are revoked NFSv4: Fix races between nfs_remove_bad_delegation() and delegation return NFSv4.1: nfs41_clear_delegation_stateid shouldn't trust NFS_DELEGATED_STATE NFSv4: Ensure that we remove NFSv4.0 delegations when state has expired NFS: SEEK is an NFS v4.2 feature nfs: Fix use of uninitialized variable in nfs_getattr() nfs: Remove bogus assignment nfs: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE in write path pnfs/blocklayout: serialize GETDEVICEINFO calls nfs: fix pnfs direct write memory leak Revert "NFS: nfs4_do_open should add negative results to the dcache." Revert "NFS: remove BUG possibility in nfs4_open_and_get_state" NFSv4: Ensure nfs_atomic_open set the dentry verifier on ENOENT
2014-11-14GFS2: Update timestamps on fallocateAndrew Price
gfs2_fallocate() wasn't updating ctime and mtime when modifying the inode. Add a call to file_update_time() to do that. Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-11-14GFS2: Update i_size properly on fallocateAndrew Price
This addresses an issue caught by fsx where the inode size was not being updated to the expected value after fallocate(2) with mode 0. The problem was caused by the offset and len parameters being converted to multiples of the file system's block size, so i_size would be rounded up to the nearest block size multiple instead of the requested size. This replaces the per-chunk i_size updates with a single i_size_write on successful completion of the operation. With this patch gfs2 gets through a complete run of fsx. For clarity, the check for (error == 0) following the loop is removed as all failures before that point jump to out_* labels or return. Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>