From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>

Currently, a writepage() which detects that it is writing outside i_size (due
to concurrent truncate) will abandon the write, returning -EIO.

The return value will bogusly cause an error to be recorded in the
address_space.  So convert all those writepage() instances to return zero in
this case.



 fs/buffer.c         |    2 +-
 fs/cifs/file.c      |    9 ++++++++-
 fs/nfs/write.c      |    2 +-
 fs/ntfs/aops.c      |    4 ++--
 fs/reiserfs/inode.c |    4 ++--
 fs/smbfs/file.c     |    2 +-
 6 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/buffer.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors fs/buffer.c
--- 25/fs/buffer.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/buffer.c	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
@@ -2610,7 +2610,7 @@ int block_write_full_page(struct page *p
 		 */
 		block_invalidatepage(page, 0);
 		unlock_page(page);
-		return -EIO;
+		return 0; /* don't care */
 	}
 
 	/*
diff -puN fs/cifs/file.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors fs/cifs/file.c
--- 25/fs/cifs/file.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/cifs/file.c	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
@@ -500,12 +500,19 @@ cifs_partialpagewrite(struct page *page,
 	write_data = kmap(page);
 	write_data += from;
 
-	if((to > PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) || (from > to) || (offset > mapping->host->i_size)) {
+	if((to > PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) || (from > to)) {
 		kunmap(page);
 		FreeXid(xid);
 		return -EIO;
 	}
 
+	/* racing with truncate? */
+	if(offset > mapping->host->i_size) {
+		kunmap(page);
+		FreeXid(xid);
+		return 0; /* don't care */
+	}
+
 	/* check to make sure that we are not extending the file */
 	if(mapping->host->i_size - offset < (loff_t)to)
 		to = (unsigned)(mapping->host->i_size - offset); 
diff -puN fs/nfs/write.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors fs/nfs/write.c
--- 25/fs/nfs/write.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/nfs/write.c	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ nfs_writepage(struct page *page, struct 
 	offset = i_size & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1);
 
 	/* OK, are we completely out? */
-	err = -EIO;
+	err = 0; /* potential race with truncate - ignore */
 	if (page->index >= end_index+1 || !offset)
 		goto out;
 do_it:
diff -puN fs/ntfs/aops.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors fs/ntfs/aops.c
--- 25/fs/ntfs/aops.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/ntfs/aops.c	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
@@ -811,8 +811,8 @@ static int ntfs_writepage(struct page *p
 	if (unlikely(page->index >= (vi->i_size + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >>
 			PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)) {
 		unlock_page(page);
-		ntfs_debug("Write outside i_size. Returning i/o error.");
-		return -EIO;
+		ntfs_debug("Write outside i_size - truncated?");
+		return 0;
 	}
 
 	ni = NTFS_I(vi);
diff -puN fs/reiserfs/inode.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors fs/reiserfs/inode.c
--- 25/fs/reiserfs/inode.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/reiserfs/inode.c	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
@@ -2048,8 +2048,8 @@ static int reiserfs_write_full_page(stru
         last_offset = inode->i_size & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) ;
 	/* no file contents in this page */
 	if (page->index >= end_index + 1 || !last_offset) {
-	    error =  -EIO ;
-	    goto fail ;
+	    error = 0 ;
+	    goto done ;
 	}
 	kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
 	memset(kaddr + last_offset, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-last_offset) ;
diff -puN fs/smbfs/file.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors fs/smbfs/file.c
--- 25/fs/smbfs/file.c~awe-fix-truncate-errors	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/smbfs/file.c	2003-08-18 23:01:58.000000000 -0700
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ smb_writepage(struct page *page, struct 
 	offset = inode->i_size & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1);
 	/* OK, are we completely out? */
 	if (page->index >= end_index+1 || !offset)
-		return -EIO;
+		return 0; /* truncated - don't care */
 do_it:
 	page_cache_get(page);
 	err = smb_writepage_sync(inode, page, 0, offset);

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